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Today's clip is from episode 171 of the podcast with the wonderful Ryan Holiday.

Now Ryan is making timeless ancient wisdom accessible to millions through his inspiring books and blogs, and in this clip, he explains that it's not what happens to us in life that really matters.

It's our reaction to it, and when you change your mindset, you can transform your life.

I really feel when I see a lot of my patients that the friction between what is going on in our minds and what is going on in real life, and that sort of the obstacles and the tension around that,

actually that is a stressor on the body, and we know that stress affects every organ system in the body, so there's so many symptoms downstream symptoms I see,

whether it's anxiety, depression, gut problems, insomnia, all kinds of things that actually I feel stoic philosophy would really, really help people.

What stoic philosophy is really built around is the idea that stuff is going to happen, that stuff that we didn't want, stuff that we didn't expect, something that knocks us on our ass.

At Pactetus says, it's not things that upset us, it's our judgment about things.

And I remember hearing that for the first time, and it just sort of blows your mind. It's not what happens, it's how we respond, it's how we react that matters.

The opportunity is what we decide to do with that thing. How do we become better for it if that's possible?

What's the thing that we couldn't have done without this happening? That's another way to think about it. What can we learn from it?

How is this testing us in some way? How is this creating an opportunity for us to rise above it, to transcend this moment, to do something for other people, for ourselves, for the world?

There's really no situation so bad, so undesirable, that some good can't be wrestled from it.

I'm not saying you can magically turn the death of your father into a wonderful fairy tale of greatness and joy.

Bad things happen, but we can wrestle some good from them.

Yeah, I mean, Shakespeare also said, didn't he, that there's no such thing as good or bad just thinking makes it so, which I guess is another spin on very similar concepts.

Events are objective. They're not good or bad for you. That's where we have the power.

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