These Things Happen (And They’ll Happen To You) | Always Ask Yourself This Question

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. These things happen, and they'll happen to you. It seems Unimaginable all the things that happened to Marcus Aurelius a plague, a flood, a famine, wars, betrayal, a coup, children not surviving to adulthood, health issues. Here's the thing, you don't have to imagine it.

It happened, it was real. It's in the historical record. What of Seneca and Epictetus? Slavery, physical disability, exile, a deranged boss, a death sentence. These things happen to them just as they have happened to countless people throughout world history.

These things could happen to you too. So could the things you've heard happening to friends or people in the news, a mugging on a street corner, a confessed affair, a cancer diagnosis, a layoff, a car accident, a house fire, A debilitating injury. These things might catch you by surprise, but as we've said recently, it's not because you weren't warned. You were, not just in this email, but by the Stoics over and over again.

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