BONUS | You Can't Let The Setbacks Win
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🗓️ 2 February 2026
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Summary
When jarred by circumstances, Marcus Aurelius writes, we have to revert back to ourselves. We have to come back to the rhythm. We have to intervene. We can't let the challenges win.
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| 0:30.1 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom |
| 0:39.9 | into the real world. |
| 0:44.2 | You can't let the setbacks win. |
| 0:47.8 | You had big plans. |
| 0:49.5 | You had earnest intentions. |
| 0:51.2 | You were really going to get after it. |
| 0:53.2 | You were going to do things differently. |
| 0:55.5 | It was going to be a dry January for you. It was going to be a January filled with workouts and better |
| 1:00.5 | eating. You were going to pick up your guitar again or finally quit smoking. What happened? |
| 1:06.3 | You got sick. Your kids got sick. Work got crazy, you got distracted by the events in the news. |
| 1:12.8 | And the result was you kept on being, as Marx really said, the person you've always been, |
| 1:18.8 | even though you were being mauled and degraded by the life you were living. |
| 1:23.9 | That's okay, right? |
| 1:25.4 | It happens. |
| 1:26.8 | Stoicism is not about perfection. Life is going to interrupt. |
| 1:31.0 | Things are going to challenge us. Things are going to happen. We're not always going to follow through on what we said. |
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