Welcome guys and gals to the men talk show. I'm Connor Beaton and today we're going to dive into the top five

Stoic Lessons that will change your life. So recently I got asked, this is about a month and a half ago,

someone asked me on Instagram what some of my favorite books were and one of them I recommended

this person went out and bought and they read and they came back and

they said, wow, like this book has fundamentally changed my life and changed some perspectives and

mindsets and thank you so much. And you need to share this with more people was their recommendation.

And so this actually led to me creating this midweek mini episode. And the book is Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.

Now, the five lessons I'm going to share on this episode are not all from that book.

They are from the Stoic era, but I will share the different people from whom these lessons have come.

So let's just dive straight in. Lesson number one,

every event is the right one. Look closely and you will see. Every event is the right one.

Look closely and you will see. And this is a challenging one, right? Because some of us have

had some tremendously terrible, some tremendously hard, challenging events take place in our life.

And it's often hard for us to see why that is the right event. And, you know, no one ever really

writes a biography or an autobiography of the person who had a problem-free life.

Because that person fundamentally, fundamentally does not exist.

And so what this really means, the lesson here is for us to come back to the understanding and the knowledge that when something

bad, when something really bad happens to you, it actually needed to happen. And, you know,

I can think of some perfect examples of that in my own life. You know, the reason why I do what I do

today is because some negative circumstances happen in my life. But when it first happens, when these

circumstances first happened, you might not be able to understand the purpose, the meaning behind

it, and that's okay. But down the road, you know, when you're sort of back on your feet and you

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