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Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast where each day we read a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you in your everyday life.

Well, on Thursdays, we not only read the daily meditation, but we answer some questions from listeners and fellow Stoics.

We're trying to apply this philosophy just as you are.

Some of these come from my talks.

Some of these come from Zoom sessions that we do with Daily Stoic Life members or as part of the challenges.

Some of them are from interactions I have on the street when there happened to be someone there recording.

But thank you for listening and we hope this is of use to you.

Don't make this lesson more painful.

We get so used to having our way.

This is after all the time when the skies have been conquered when so many diseases have been vanquished,

when technology allows us to do and have things that were inconceivable even just a generation ago.

The result is that the eternal battle for our attention that we have talked about often here,

between the things we control and the things we don't control becomes even harder for us to wage.

The lessons and warnings that the Stoics have issued to us across the centuries about this perpetual internal fight,

they begin to feel that they belong to a different age meant for people who are fundamentally different from us,

who occupy the world alien to the one that we occupy.

This is how skewed our collective sense of self has become thanks to the conquest of physical and digital worlds.

We have unrealistic beliefs about what's in our control and what isn't.

And it has made the art of acquiescence, as Marcus called it, even more difficult to practice, let alone perfect.

One of the many things one learns in prison Oscar Wilde writes in his haunting essay,

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