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The inevitable fact of life is that so-called bad news is going to happen, right? We're going to hear things that we weren't planning to hear, that we didn't want to hear, that hurt, that make us sad, that surprised us.

That's just life. Be wonderful if everyone we knew stayed together. It'd be wonderful if everything worked out. It'd be wonderful if there was never a plane delay. It'd be wonderful if the film was ever killed or wounded. It'd be wonderful if there was only good news.

But the reality is that everyone has gotten bad news, and everyone knows they will continue to get bad news. So, I think the question for the Stokes is, how do we respond to that? How do we deal with bad news?

So, the first thing that Stoke would think about is, let's look at those labels really fast. The Stokes try to be objective as possible. So, they go like, why are we calling this bad news?

Shakespeare's line was nothing neither good nor bad, but thinking makes itself.

But I think going back to Epic Titus, there's the idea that things are objective, our judgment about things are not objective. So, the Stoke market drops 100 points, 500 points. We're quick to call that bad.

But if we had massively hedged against the market, or we had a massively short the market, that would be good.

The event is objective, we just have opinions about it. And realizing that we have these opinions, that we have the power to decide what they are, and that what's good for us might be bad for others. And vice versa is an important way to take the edge off things to go, okay, the event is the event, it's information.

And then that leads into the, I think one of the most important tenants of Stoicism, which is, how do we respond to that thing?

Donald Robertson, one of the great modern writers about Stoicism, he says, you know, the Stoke tells themselves that, sure, life is frightening, the situation might be frightening, but the truly important thing is how we choose to respond.

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