It’s Not Supposed To Go Down Easy | This 10 Minute Habit Will Change Your Life

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. It's not supposed to go down easy. Look, if it was easy, it wouldn't be much in the way of a philosophical insight. If anyone could do it and do it without much effort, it wouldn't be very impressive.

Nietzsche said that his formula for human greatness was amorfati, that one wants nothing to be different, he said, as a prescription, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity, not merely bear what is necessary, he said, still less conceal it. Love it. Greatness is not easily in reach by definition. So loving what happened? I mean, sure, it's easy to love what's fun and wonderful, it's hard to accept the inconveniences of life, traffic and jerks and air pod drop down a sewer grate, let alone the tragedies.

How can you love a prolonged illness, an economic crash, a pandemic, a brutal violent act, a public humiliation, the loss of a dear friend or a family member? The answer is only by difficult work. It takes practice, it takes reflection, it takes perspective, it takes time. A murfati is a challenge. That's the whole point.

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