This episode takes a trip down a different path than many of our guests. But it is no less relevant to the development of mental toughness. Shilo talks to us about how tolerance should be painful, strengthening the mind like the body as an exercise, and that comfort is not the highest good. What does your intellectual diet look like? This conversation will challenge some preconceived notions of what a good life looks like. 

Show Notes: 

Shilo Brooks is Faculty Director of the Engineering Leadership Program, Associate Faculty Director of the Benson Center for the Study of Western Civilization, and an affiliated faculty member in the Engineering Management Program and the Herbst Program for Engineering, Ethics & Society. He has held fellowships at Princeton University and the University of Virginia, and has been a visiting professor of government at Bowdoin College. He teaches and writes about leadership, liberal education, politics, and science. He received his Ph.D. in political science from Boston College, and his B.A. in liberal arts from the Great Books Program at St. John's College, Annapolis.

Nietzsche's Culture War: The Unity of the Untimely Meditations by Shilo Brooks

https://www.amazon.com/Nietzsches-Culture-War-Meditations-Recovering-dp-3319871005/dp/3319871005/ref=mt_other?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=

The Wright Brothers by David McCullough

https://www.amazon.com/Wright-Brothers-David-McCullough/dp/1476728755/ref=sr_1_3?crid=11QQESQMV748D&dchild=1&keywords=wright+brothers+book&qid=1611667935&s=books&sprefix=wright+brothers%2Cstripbooks%2C177&sr=1-3

The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure by Jonathan Haidt and Greg Lukianoff

https://www.amazon.com/Coddling-American-Mind-Intentions-Generation/dp/0735224919/ref=sr_1_1?crid=6I95SS192WWX&dchild=1&keywords=coddling+of+the+american+mind&qid=1611668275&s=books&sprefix=coddling%2Cstripbooks%2C171&sr=1-1