This Is The Only Thing You Get to Choose | There Is Philosophy In Everything
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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. After everything that's happened in the last few years, we're tired. After everything that's happened in your life, after everything that's gone wrong the last couple of weeks, you think to yourself, I can't handle one more thing going wrong. Certainly Marcus Aurelius would have related to that sentiment. Floods and plagues and wars, a troubled son, personal health issues.
Haven't I given enough? We have Marcus Realis say in a recent Daily Stoic video. The thing is, life doesn't care, has no time for your questions, pays no mind to your limits. I don't think I'm up for this, the novelist John Gregory Dunn said to his wife as they left the hospital after rushing to check on their daughter, who had just been admitted. He was down about his career, he wasn't feeling great about his own health,
He was sick about his only child. He was worried it would be a long and hard road ahead for them. Joan Didion, his steely stoic wife, responded with something we could imagine Marcus Aurelius reminding himself of in meditations. You don't get a choice, she says. Fortune behaves as she pleases, the Stoic said.
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