It Is What It Is | Count Your Blessings
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 17 May 2021
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“There are a lot of things that oppose us in this life. Starting with gravity, we are held down by so many things: other people, bad luck, unfavorable odds, and god knows what else. We struggle to get ahead. We struggle to realize our potential. We run into so many obstacles.”
Ryan discusses you must face reality with boldness, and reads this week’s meditation from The Daily Stoic Journal, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members. You can listen to the Daily Stoic podcast early and add free on Amazon music download the app today |
| 0:12.1 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast each day. We bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoics |
| 0:19.2 | Illustrated with stories from history |
| 0:21.2 | Current events and literature to help you be better at what you do and at the beginning of the week |
| 0:26.1 | We try to do a deeper dive setting a kind of stoic intention for the week something to meditate on something to think on |
| 0:33.1 | Something to leave you with to journal about whatever it is you happen to be doing |
| 0:37.6 | So let's get into it |
| 0:42.3 | It is what it is the thing about most things we label as bad is that they aren't they just are a |
| 0:49.5 | virus isn't evil and economic depression isn't malicious. They are unfeeling indifferent in human events |
| 0:58.4 | Their impact on humans unfortunately is not so neutral, but the fact remains |
| 1:03.8 | They are things that just are as epictetus reminds us it's our opinion about these events that is not neutral either |
| 1:11.1 | It is the mechanism that labels them as good or bad horrible or unfair tragic or historic |
| 1:17.6 | It's that supposed to be comfort to someone who has lost their job or someone they loved no no amount of semantics can |
| 1:24.5 | Explain away a death toll or mend a broken heart, but let's go back to the idea of an economy for a second |
| 1:31.2 | People who actually work in the market are much less concerned with whether the market is good or bad |
| 1:35.9 | They know their job is to work with it as it is no matter what it is every single day |
| 1:41.5 | They know they have to adapt themselves to what is happening make the most of it struggle and keep going |
| 1:46.8 | Perhaps this is how we must begin to think about the pandemic and the whole of life |
| 1:51.8 | We are up close and personal with it expected to produce a return no matter the circumstances |
| 1:56.6 | Which means we have to be accommodating and resilient which means we have to be opportunistic the positive sense of that word |
| 2:03.1 | It means that we can't take anything personally or be deceived by expectations |
| 2:07.6 | We just have to keep going we just have to take things as they are |
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