James Stockdale was a fighter pilot shot down over Vietnam who consciously chose to apply Epictetus's philosophy while being imprisoned, tortured, and held in solitary confinement for seven-plus years in the Hanoi Hilton.
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“it's written by a fighter pilot who shot down down over Vietnam as he is parachuting down knowing he's going to be taken prisoner knowing that he very well could die this man says to himself I'm leaving the world of technology entering the world of epicus”
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