No, This Is The Mission | Kindness Is Always The Right Response
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What is the mission discussed in this episode?
Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. Hey, it's Ryan. Hope you are well. I am just working on my talk. I'm gonna be giving a talk in San Francisco and Portland in mid-June. I'd love to see you there. You can grab tickets at dailystoiclive.com. If you're not on the West Coast, you wanna see me in the Midwest or on the East Coast. Tickets are up Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit, Boston, DC. I'm forgetting another one. And then I'm gonna be in Australia in October as well. All those tickets at dailystoiclive.com.
No, this is the mission. You thought you were supposed to be doing this. You thought your job was to do that. You were on a mission to do something very specific. But then what happened? Life happened. Stuff happened. Other people happened.
And now, now that is the mission. When Marcus Aurelius wrote his famous passage about how the obstacle is the way, this is what he was referring to. There can be no impeding our intentions or dispositions, he said, because we can accommodate and adapt. The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes, the obstacle, to our acting. Nothing can prevent our mission, he was saying, because the mission adapts. We thought our assignment was one thing, but now we realize it's another. Might be less fun. It might require more patience than we planned, more forgiveness than we possessed, demand more creativity than anticipated.
But that's the point. We are growing and changing and expanding to meet this new mission. The obstacle isn't a detour. It is the path.
It's crazy to me. Last year was the 10-year anniversary of The Obstacle is Away, and now it's the 11th year anniversary of it. I just... It's not anything I could have imagined without that book. I don't know. My life would be very different. Certainly, we wouldn't be here talking. If you haven't read The Obstacle Is The Way Yet, you can check it out. We have a 10-year anniversary edition. I'll sign your copy. We've got leather-bound editions in the Daily Stoic store as well. I'll link to all that in today's show notes.
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