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Welcome to the Daily Stood Podcast where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight and wisdom every day life.

Each one of these passages is based on the 2000 year old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women.

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You are not the problem.

Epic Titus' most powerful line is about how it's not things that upset us, but what we think about things that does all the damage.

What he really meant is that our sense of what an obstacle or a disadvantage or a trial is, our subjective understanding is more powerful than the objective reality.

For instance, if you tell yourself that you were failed by your teachers, and that's why you're not as smart as other people for the rest of your life, you're going to have trouble learning and understanding things.

It may be true that your teachers were less than adequate, but this story you've chosen to tell yourself is the true failure.

And you can see how a person who tells themselves a different story about the same facts. For instance, I attended underperforming schools, but my hunger for learning allowed me to rise above it, or my street smarts make up for what I lack in education will do much better in life.

As Epic Titus said, sickness is an impediment to the body, but not to the will unless the will wants to be impeded.

Lameness is an impediment to the leg, but not to the will. If you tell yourself this every time you will find the impediment is to something else, but not to yourself.

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