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

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

Hey, it's Ryan. Hope you are well. I am just working on my talk. I'm going to be given a talk

in San Francisco and Portland in mid-June. I'd just working on my talk. I'm going to be given a talk in San Francisco and Portland

in mid-June. I'd love to see you there. You can grab tickets at daily stoiclyb.com.

If you're not on the West Coast, you want to see me in the Midwest or on the East Coast. Tickets are up.

Chicago, Minneapolis, Detroit, Boston, D.C. I'm forgetting another one. And then I'm going to be in Australia in October as well.

All those tickets at DailyStoek Live.com.

No, this is the mission. You thought you were supposed to be doing this. You thought your job was to do that.

You were on a mission to do something very specific. But then what happened? Life happened.

Stuff happened. Other people happened. And now, now that is the mission. When Marcus

Srealius wrote his famous passage about how the obstacle is the way, this is what he was

referring to.

There can be no impeding our intentions or dispositions, he said, because we can accommodate and adapt.

The mind adapts and converts to its own purposes, the obstacle, to our acting.

Nothing can prevent our mission, he was saying, because the mission adapts.

We thought our assignment

was one thing, but now we realize it's another. Might be less fun. It might require more

patience than we plan, more forgiveness than we possessed, demand more creativity than anticipated.

But that's the point. We are growing and changing and expanding to meet this new mission.

The obstacle isn't a detour. It is the path.

It's crazy to me. Last year was the 10-year anniversary of the obstacles away, and now it's

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