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Start free trial →The Daily Stoic · Ideas & Essays · November 2026
Telling how Stoicism caught on in professional sports, he recalls a magazine writer turning a passing podcast mention into a story that made the trend bigger than it was.
Yeah.
…of going through it. But that's really what that story is about. And it speaks to exactly what you're talking about. I'd be curious for you. Like, I mean, whenever I go into the office of a coach, your books are in their office. Like, what is it like being the guy that everyone turns to for wisdom?
…I will say I had something to do with it. I remember I sent an article, like Michelle Tafoya had talked about it on a podcast. This is like some inside baseball, literally, I guess. Yeah. Michelle Tafoya talked about it on a podcast. And I sent that link to Greg Bishop at Sports Illustrated and he turned it into a piece. Like the book was, the books were working in sports, but as you know, there's nothing quite like a trend piece to make a trend real. And so that piece about it, like sort of made it more real than it was at the time. But I guess the point is like, you know, it can be very easy to be deceived by the outcome there, which is like, oh, you can decide consciously to take an ancient school of philosophy and make it popular again. Like, that's not what happened at all. Like, I was interested in writing a book about an ancient…
Well, and I think that like that word, again, is it's wisdom, you know, when people look at you for a certain thing. And I think that like what balances, what probably makes it work for you is that you're great at explaining wisdom.
Yeah.
And giving examples of the things that probably have the best chance to prove wise. You know? Well, I think I'm good