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Welcome to the Daily Stoke Podcast, where each day we bring you a passage of ancient

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

Each one of these passages is based on the 2000 year old philosophy that has guided some

of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at DailyStoke.com.

The gift of having to start over. It's scary to start over. It's scary to pursue a new career

to pursue that tugging interest, to step into uncertainty, to be single again. It takes

courage or a catastrophe. We had Chris Gillebo on the podcast not long ago, and he's helped

millions of people reinvent themselves in their careers. His latest book, The Money Tree,

is the story of overcoming a significant struggle and discovering meaning and self-reliance

on the other side of it. When I talk to him at the beginning of the pandemic, we were

talking about how there are millions of people who suddenly have had no choice but to start

over. This is what he said. He said, first of all, congratulations on reaching such

a remarkable opportunity. Starting over means you have the chance to build what you really

want. Imagine building a sand castle and then seeing it destroyed by a freak tidal wave.

You're disappointed, right? But then you start over and maybe the new one is better. It

doesn't take as long to build and you make improvements as you go based on the sand castle

building skills you've acquired. Or maybe you just realize you're tired of building

sandcastles so you leave and do something else. On the other side of this disordered state

we're all in now, I think we'll see a number of tremendous shifts and positive changes

from so many people. And look, in lies of the Stoics, I tell the story of Zeno's shipwreck,

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