Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues,

courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world.

Hey there, just a heads up. I'm going to be on tour this fall. You can see me in Australia,

in New Zealand, in October, in August.

I'm mixing my months up here, but in August, you can see me in Chicago, in Minneapolis, and

Detroit. Then I'll be on the East Coast sometime in November and December. Anyways, grab tickets to that,

DailyStoiclive.com. I hope to see you there. Could you do this?

Nobody likes to do it. Nobody likes to wait. Nobody likes to have to defer. Nobody likes to be overlooked

or taken for granted or yoked to somebody else. It's been said that the most difficult

instrument in the orchestra is second fiddle.

Can you imagine being Marcus Reelis?

He was chosen to succeed Hadrian, but first he had to learn under Antoninus,

except that Antoninus lives for another two decades.

Think of the patience, the humility, the self-control, the endurance. It's

frustrating to have to wait for six months, let alone six years. And nearly 36% of Marcus's life

was spent waiting for Antoninus to retire or pass away. But not only does Marcus Reelis put up

with this, he uses it.

He understood that power and responsibility were heavy things, that it was actually a gift to delay them.

It was time with family, time to be normal.

He understood that it was a complex job he was taking over and that every minute of prior experience was a benefit, that every lesson was priceless.

Life is going to ask you to wait sometimes.

There will be people ahead of you.

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