Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues,

courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world.

It's not supposed to go down easy. Look, if it was easy, it wouldn't be much in the way of a philosophical insight.

If anyone could do it and do it without much effort, it wouldn't be very impressive.

Nietzsche said that his formula for human greatness was amorphati.

That one wants nothing to be different, he said, as a prescription, not forward, not backward, not in all

eternity, not merely bear what is necessary, he said, still less conceal it. Love it. Greatness is not

easily in reach by definition. So loving what happened, I mean, sure, it's easy to love what's fun and wonderful. It's hard to accept the inconveniences of life. Traffic and jerks and air pod drop down a sewer grate, let alone the tragedies. How can you love a prolonged illness, an economic crash, a pandemic, a brutal violent act, a public humiliation,

the loss of a dear friend or a family member. The answer is only by difficult work. It takes

practice. It takes reflection. It takes perspective. It takes time. Amorfati is a challenge.

That's the whole point. It's something you're supposed to wrestle with, struggle with, asking yourself, could that possibly apply here? It's a formula for greatness

because it demands greatness. It is out of the reach of most of us, out of easy reach anyway.

We have to grow to grab hold of it.

And in the end, it's that growth that is probably the only redeeming part of the entire experience.

Hey, it's Ryan Holiday.

Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast.

I just had a crazy travel day.

I got up at 4 in the morning.

I should have like 350.

Drove to the airport in Panama City, Florida.

I caught a 7 a.m. flight. I had to get there crazy early because of all this TSA stuff. I didn't know how long the line would be. And I called the airport the day before just to ask, you know, hey, is it crazy at that airport? And they said, all were allowed to tell you is that you should get here three hours before your flight. Of course, there was precisely two minutes of traffic. I got to the airport at 4.58, and I was through security at 5 a.m. But anyways, I flew from Panama City, Florida to Atlanta, Atlanta to San Francisco,

did a thing in San Francisco, which I'll bring to you shortly. And then I got

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