Author Nancy Sherman on Building Resilience and Living Well | What Are You Making Up About This? That’s The Question.

<p>Ryan reads today’s daily meditation and talks to author Nancy Sherman about her new book <a href='https://geni.us/Sly7IS'>Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience</a>, using Stoicism to work through emotional trauma rather than repress it, her experience teaching Stoic philosophy to the armed forces, and more. </p><p>Nancy Sherman is a New York Times Notable Author. She has written several books on Stoicism including <a href='https://geni.us/DNcHyBR'>Stoic Warriors: The Ancient Philosophy Behind the Military Mind</a>. She has also written over 60 articles in the area of ethics, military ethics, the history of moral philosophy, ancient ethics, the emotions, moral psychology, and psychoanalysis. She is the Professor of Philosophy at Georgetown University.</p><p><a href='http://blinkist.com/stoic'>Blinkist</a> is the app that gets you fifteen-minute summaries of the best nonfiction books out there. You get the topline information and the most important points from the most important nonfiction books out there, whether it’s Ryan’s own <a href='https://www.blinkist.com/en/books/the-daily-stoic-en'><em>The Daily Stoic</em></a><em>, </em>Yuval Harari’s <a href='https://www.blinkist.com/en/books/sapiens-en'><em>Sapiens</em></a><em>, </em>and more. Go to <a href='http://blinkist.com/stoic'>blinkist.com/stoic</a>, try it free for 7 days, and save 25% off your new subscription, too.</p><p><a href='https://www.tenthousand.cc/'>Ten Thousand</a> makes the highest quality, best-fitting, and most comfortable training shorts I have ever worn. They are a direct-to-consumer company, no middleman so you get premium fabrics, trims, and techniques that other brands simply cannot afford. <a href='https://www.tenthousand.cc/'>Ten Thousand</a> is offering our listeners 15% off your purchase. go to <a href='https://www.tenthousand.cc/'>Tenthousand.cc</a> and enter code STOIC to receive 15% off your purchase.</p><p><a href='https://www.policygenius.com/'>Policygenius</a> helps you compare top insurers in one place, and it let