You Are On The Right Timeline | Don't Let Your Attention Slide

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 are on the right timeline. It might not seem that way, in fact, it might seem like everything is falling apart. You didn't get the promotion you wanted. The election turned out differently than you hoped.

You just got some disappointing news. You just got hurt. You just got screwed over. Meanwhile, that person you can't stand is getting ahead, getting lucky break after lucky break. This isn't the timeline I'm supposed to be on, you think.

This isn't how it was supposed to go. But what if it is? That every event is the right one, Mark Squilius writes in Meditations. Look closely and you'll see, not just the right one overall, but right, as if someone had weighed it out with scales. This wasn't just mental jujitsu for him, though, he believed we had to make this the right timeline, and how we acted.

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