Sometimes This Is The Only Way To Grow | Ask Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 8 May 2025
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It would be nice if we always had smooth sailing. But we don’t.
📚 Books mentioned:
On Character by General Stanley McChrystal
Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius (Gregory Hays Translation)
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| 1:49.6 | For more, visit daily stoic.com. Sometimes this is the only way to grow. It would be nice if it was painless. It would be nice if you could just take a pill or get a piece of advice. It would be nice if we always had smooth sailing. But we don't. That's not how most growth comes to us. |
| 2:20.5 | Marcus Aurelius, as we've said many times, had a rough go of it. Floods and wars and plagues, |
| 2:25.9 | betrayals, loss. Yet this was also the fire that forged him. He could not have been great without it. |
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