Nothing Can Get In The Way of the Mission | Test Your Impressions
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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. Nothing can get in the way of the mission. We have our job, we have our goal, we have whatever it is that we're trying to do. And then we have other people, we have circumstances, we have freak events and freak weather. And these things can get in the way.
They can disrupt that goal, mess up our plans, even eliminate our job. But our mission? Well, that can never be prevented because our mission is dealing with obstacles. Our mission is to be a good person no matter what happens. Our mission is excellence.
Always. What this means, what Marx Realis is trying to say in Meditations, is that when something gets in the way of the mission, we've been given a gift. Fate is offering us fuel. It's not hindering us in the least because our mission is bigger than this thing in front of us. Our mission is, by definition, flexible and adaptable, and yet also unchanging.
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