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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 every day 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 Whiplash is your fault. It felt like things were heading in the right direction, like things

were finally getting better. Not just right now with the pandemic or the political situation,

but on so many other occasions in our lives. When we went through what we thought was the

hardest part of a situation and figured that, of course, we would be over soon. That, of

course, things would go back to normal to the way that they used to be. Did that happen?

Does that ever happen? No, it does not. James Stockdale was once asked,

who struggled the most in the famous Hanway Hilton? Oh, that's easy, he said. It was the

optimists. Dr. Edith Inger, on the DailyStoke podcast with me, talked about a campmate in Auschwitz

who was convinced they'd be rescued by Christmas. On that day, when the liberation did not come,

her friend died of a broken heart. This situation that we're in right now, it's not our fault.

We didn't cause the pandemic. We didn't ask for this miserable period at work. We're not the ones

who prescribed six to eight weeks of recovery for the injury that was a freak accident.

And nor is it our fault if this drags on longer than predicted or something else happens on top

of what has already occurred. But, Aestheok doesn't make things worse with optimism. That is fixate on

conditional hopes about things that are outside of our control. Instead, we settle in. We are

comfortable with discomfort. We make the most of this moment in front of us. That's a lifetime

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