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Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast.

On Thursdays, we do double duty, not just reading our daily meditation,

but also reading a passage from the book, The Daily Stoic, 366 Meditations on Wisdom,

Perseverance, and the Art of Living, which I wrote with my wonderful co-author and collaborator,

Stephen Hanselman.

And so today, we'll give you a quick meditation from one of the Stoics, from Epititus Markis,

really, as Seneca, then some analysis for me, and then we send you out into the world to do your best to turn these words into works.

There is an upside to the downside.

It's easy to complain when something goes wrong.

It's easy to notice what we've missed.

Take the last two years, for example, many of us have been focused on what we've been deprived of,

the people we haven't gotten to see, the places we haven't been able to go, the opportunities lost.

The problem on focusing on what we miss, the Stoics would say, is that it misses all the things that we gained,

or could have gained if we had decided to see the obstacle as the way if we had seen the opportunities that each situation presented.

And the funny thing about focusing on what we miss, though, is that we also miss the other things that we miss,

which if we fully understood the implications, would create an enormous sense of gratitude.

As Cisero explains, you may say that the deaf men miss the pleasure of hearing the musician's songs.

Yes, but they also miss the squeaking of a saw being sharpened.

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