Episode · The Daily Stoic · 2026-09-06
Books mentioned on The Moment Ryan’s Italy Trip Went Sideways
Ryan thought running 50 kilometers through Rome would be the hard part of the family trip to Italy but he was wrong. In today’s episode, he shares how the rest of the trip went completely off the rails and what happened after his family got home that made every travel disaster along the way seem small.
Books mentioned, in the order they came up
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Meditations
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius is a collection of personal journals written by the Roman emperor containing Stoic philosophy and reflections on self-control, humility, and mortality.
Discussed“You know, all Mark's realist stuff about, you know, you try to stay present. He says that your child is sick, but not that they might die of it.”
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