Pain Is A Part Of Life | Become An Expert In What Matters
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🗓️ 14 April 2023
⏱️ 8 minutes
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Summary
This is an excerpt from Ryan Holiday’s latest book **The Daily Dad.**
“Even though you have these powers free and entirely your own, you don’t use them, because you still don’t realize what you have or where it came from. . . . I am prepared to show you that you have resources and a character naturally strong and resilient.”
-Epictetus
Oh, how you wish you could guarantee they will never suffer. Of course, you know that’s not possible. As the character in Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha says, we cannot spare our kids the suffering we have gone through in our lives. We cannot prevent them from suffering at all. Because suffering and pain are parts of life.
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And in today's Daily Stoic excerpt reading, Ryan examines why the danger in becoming "an expert in trivia" is that it results in understanding everything but oneself.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening, add free on Wondering Plus. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast. |
| 0:09.4 | On Friday, we do double duty, not just reading our daily meditation, |
| 0:13.0 | but also reading a passage from the Daily Stoic, my book, |
| 0:17.0 | 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance in the Heart of Living, |
| 0:21.2 | which I wrote with my wonderful collaborator, translator, |
| 0:25.0 | and literary agent, Stephen Hanselman. |
| 0:27.6 | So today, it will give you a quick meditation from the Stoics |
| 0:30.6 | with some analysis from me, and then we'll send you out into the world |
| 0:34.6 | to turn these words into works. |
| 0:46.6 | Pain is a part of life. |
| 0:48.6 | Oh, how you wish you could guarantee that they would never suffer. |
| 0:52.6 | Of course, you know that's not possible. |
| 0:54.6 | As the character in Herman Hess's Siddhartha says, |
| 0:57.6 | we cannot spare our kids the suffering we have gone through in our lives. |
| 1:00.6 | We cannot prevent them from suffering altogether, |
| 1:03.6 | because suffering and pain are a part of life. |
| 1:07.6 | As a parent, the goal is to raise kids who are tough enough, |
| 1:10.6 | loved enough, to deal with what life is going to throw at them. |
| 1:14.6 | We don't want them to suffer, but when the suffering comes in, |
| 1:17.6 | it's definitely coming. |
| 1:19.6 | We want them to be able to endure the initial shock, |
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