Ryan Holiday
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It happened for you.
Fate chose this for you.
Accept it.
Embrace it.
Bear it.
Make something of it.
That's the idea of amor fati.
Mark Sebelius says, a fire turns everything into fuel and brightness.
That's amor fati.
Number two, it's about what you do for other people.
Yeah.
Marcus Aurelius says the fruit of this life is good character and acts for the common good, right?
Like fumble recovery drills on a football team.
The Stoics weren't trying to study this philosophy to be better sociopaths, to be able to make more money for their own sake, to be more famous.
You're practicing this thing over and over again.
Was there ever a moment where that was a thing you had to consider doing?
It was about what they do for other people.
Do you contribute to your community, to your country?
Are you moving the ball forward for humanity?
Number three, this puts the other two in perspective, memento mori.