The Good Life by The RealTime Podcast Network is hosted by Sean Murray. It studies the values, virtues, and practices that contribute to leading a meaningful, flourishing life. The show focuses on the most important investment we all make - investing our time wisely to get the most out of life. Join Sean on a journey for the life well-lived.
Sean is the founder and CEO of RealTime Performance, a company that provides leadership and organization development services to major corporations.
On today's show, I talk with Elizabeth Samet, Professor of English at the United State Military Academy at West Point and author of the anthology Leadership: Essential Writings by Our Greatest Thinkers. Samet uses literature to teach cadets how to lead in the grand sense; that is, how to be thoughtful, strategic, ethical, principled and purposeful. In the show today she shares some of the stories from the anthology, each with a specific lesson on leadership and living the good life.
IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN:
- How Pericles used rhetoric to rally the people of Athens during the Peloponnesian War
- How a metaphor from Moby Dick is still relevant today
- Why Seneca deliberately set up his quarters above a noisy public bath
- How the Roman General Fabius Maximus used strategic “delay” to win a war
- How President Abraham Lincoln exercised his judgment and decision-making skills
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