Ryan Holiday
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world.
This is how you have to see and respond to things.
You just got the news.
You just figured out that something isn't possible.
You just failed.
You just got passed over.
Marcus Aurelius wrote about moments exactly like this in Meditations.
Something happened, he writes.
Good.
It was meant for you by nature, he said, woven into the pattern from the beginning.
Instead of lamenting it, instead of fighting it, instead of wondering why it went this way instead of that way, he's saying we have to embrace it.
See it as something happening for you and not to you.
Life is short, he writes.
That's all there is to say.
So try to be a good person.
Try to do good, to do the right thing.
Don't waste time complaining.
Don't waste time wishing or hoping.
Remember, he says, it was woven into the pattern from the beginning.
So get to work.