You Were Unsuspecting, Not Unwarned

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. You were unsuspecting, not unwarned, It was out of the blue. It caught you off guard. It hurt you.

It took some time for you to get your wits back around you to make sense of it all, to bounce back. That's not to say you're blameless here. In fact, you had plenty of warning. Haven't you read a history book or a memoir? These things happen to people.

And they've been happening for thousands of years. Did you think you were special or exempt? To quote the Noah Khan lyrics, you might have been unsuspecting, but you were not unwarned. The Stoics warned you many times, in fact. Always take full note of Fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, Seneca wrote wisely, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do.

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