Don’t Let It Do This To You | Stoicism Meets Major League Baseball

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. Don't let it do this to you. Maybe it could have been avoided, maybe it wasn't fair. maybe it happened to you. You got screwed over, you got humiliated, you were robbed of something you worked hard for, you screwed up big time, and now you're in the middle of a scandal, you're at rock bottom.

Deserved or not, preventable or not, you're at the mercy of fate of the market. of a mob. The author John Fonte, whose story I told in an article many years ago from Medium about the crazy publishing saga of his novel Ask the Dust, I'll link to that in today's show notes, he had a number of bad breaks in his career. It just didn't go the way that he wanted, and that could have made him angry, it could have turned him into a drunk or a deadbeat. but it didn't.

I think the one thing that a writer must avoid is bitterness, John Fonte told a journalist in nineteen seventy nine. I think it's the one fault that can destroy him, can shrivel him up. I've fought it all my life. It was that fight that his son admired most about his father, that he soldiered on as a writer and was eventually rediscovered and rightly celebrated.

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