It’s Not A Bad Experience | Living Like A Stoic For 30 Days
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🗓️ 6 December 2022
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
A night spent at the airport. A prison sentence. A two week bout with COVID. The crazy rush of the busiest season of the year for your business. We know we’re in for it. We dread it. We curse our fate.
Actually, we should take a page from the great performance artist Marina Abramović, which she shares in her incredible book Walk Through Walls: A Memoir. She was known for her artistic feats of strength—whether it was days in a chair staring at strangers or inviting her audience to use 72 objects on her in any manner they please. In the middle of a project that would test both her and her partner Ulay emotionally and physically, Abramović once encouraged him, “we are not having a good or bad experience. We are having an experience in a period of 16 days. Whatever comes—good or bad—we are in it.”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we read a passage of ancient wisdom |
| 0:08.4 | designed to help you in your everyday life. |
| 0:11.4 | On Tuesdays, we take a closer look at these stoic ideas, how we can apply them in our actual |
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| 0:39.5 | It's not a bad experience. |
| 0:44.1 | A night spent at the airport, a prison sentence, the crazy rush of the busiest season of the |
| 0:48.6 | year in your business's history. |
| 0:51.0 | We know we're in for it, we dread it, we curse our fate. |
| 0:55.0 | Usually we should take a page from the great performance artist Marina Abramovich, which |
| 0:59.7 | she shares in her incredible book Walk Through Walls, a memoir. |
| 1:04.1 | She was known for her artistic feats of strength, whether it was days in a chair staring at |
| 1:08.8 | strangers or inviting her audience to use 72 objects on her in any manner they please. |
| 1:15.3 | In the middle of a project that would test her and her partner Ule both emotionally and |
| 1:19.3 | physically, she once encouraged him, Ule, we are not having a good or bad experience |
| 1:24.9 | we are having an experience in a period of 16 days, whatever comes good or bad, we aren't |
| 1:32.2 | in it. |
| 1:33.2 | This is exactly what the Stoics meant when they said that events were objective but our |
| 1:37.6 | opinions about them were not. |
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