Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

If there are three things that everyone could take away from the Stoics to improve the quality of their life right now, what would that be?

One of the questions we ask ourselves when we're like afraid of something, when we're thinking about, we go, but what about me?

What would I do if?

And Marcus Reelis goes, you'll meet that with the same weapons you've met all your other problems.

So remembering that like, hey, you've met all your other problems. So remembering that like,

hey, you've been scared before and you're still here. Often what our fear is really doing is underestimating or undercounting how good we actually are at what we do. Like, you're not

suddenly tomorrow going to be a helpless loser. You're the same

person you are today. And what will you do? You'll figure it out. Just like if you quit your

job, you'd be like, I'm quitting and I'm going to go find a new job. But if you got fired,

that suddenly feels like disempowered, whereas the other one feels very empowered. So remembering

what you're capable of,

to me, is really important. Okay. Number two, uh, the Stoics say that we should always be training.

So one of the reasons I think it's important to have like a physical practice. One of the

reasons it's good to seek out adversity and difficulty is so when stuff happens, you're right.

Epicetus, one of the early Stoics, he's actually a slave.

And he says, you want to get to a point where when stuff happens, you're able to say, like, this is what I trained for.

You knew this could happen.

And you did the work.

Yes.

Before you go into the next one, it's right when the pandemic happened, I was like, this sucks, and yet I've been training for this for the last like 12, 13 years of my life. Yes. Because in 2008, when I, well, in 2007, I got injured and had surgery. And then 2008, the housing crisis, and there were no jobs for someone like me without a college

degree that was ignorant from school. I was like, I better develop myself so that when this

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