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Welcome to the Daily Stoke. For each day, we read a short passage designed to help you cultivate the strength, insight, wisdom necessary for living good 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. For more, you can visit us at DailyStoic.com.

Let us argue with reality no more. So much of what we do as a society could be described as arguing with reality.

Turn on cable news and you'll find talking heads screaming at their upset viewers about how whatever has happened as part of the story of the day is just not normal.

Look inside most businesses, especially legacy businesses, and you'll see otherwise smart and capable individuals putting everything they have into not reading the writing on the wall, into denying the obvious change in transformation happening in the world all around them.

It's almost as if their jobs are dependent on them not concluding what is obviously true and insistent otherwise.

We all spend countless hours of our finite lives talking about whether things are fair, whose fault they are, whether they should be as they are, as if that changes what they are, as if reality and truth are up for debate.

This lyric from Foster the People is worth remembering always. Well, an absolute measure won't change with opinion no matter how hard you try. It is an immovable thing.

Our opinions can't alter the inalterable. Don't waste time trying to move the immovable. That's the essence of stoicism, isn't it? Of course Marcus Aurelius and Sennaka and Epictetus believed that we still had a lot of agency in our lives.

That there was still plenty of room for us to maneuver and achieve an effect change. They just accepted that there were some things we could not change. That's right.

There are things outside of our control. Today we are going to accept them without argument. We are not going to spend one minute fighting or arguing or adding opinions on top of them.

There is a truth Foster sings. I can promise you that. Which is why we are going to make the most of it.

To me this approach is also connected to the idea of a more faati. Once you accept what's outside of your control you can embrace.

Making the most of it you can embrace what is within your control, what you can change.

If you want to check that out you can go to dailystoic.com slash store. We have an immorafati medallion. I carry it in my right pocket every day.

There is also an immorafati medallion which people all over the world wear and they touch and reminds them of this very idea. So dailystoic.com slash store.

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