Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation

designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life.

Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of

history's greatest men and women to help you learn from them, to follow in their example,

and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom.

For more, visit DailyStoic.com. That's what it's made for.

You probably wish you didn't have to.

And of course, you didn't want it to happen.

It would be nicer if things went as planned.

But one thing we know about life is that this is just how it goes.

Accidents, disasters, difficult periods, challenging situations.

Well, as we said before, this is what we trained for.

This is the whole point of stoicism.

There's a great line in a Nathaniel Raitliff's song about this.

Let me play it for you real fast.

Now, lean and use your way, that's what a shoulder's made for.

Lean and use your weight, that's what a shoulder's made for.

Adversity and difficulty is what you are for.

It's certainly what stoicism is for.

These lessons were tried and tested in the furnace of history. They were subjected to tyrants in exile, plagues, and wars, imprisonment,

and health crises, temptations, and trials. And now, now is your chance to apply them, to use them.

You've got the shoulders. You are standing on shoulders of generations

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