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Welcome to the weekend edition of the Daily Stoic. Each weekday we bring you a meditation inspired by the ancient Stoic, something that can help you live up to those four Stoic virtues of courage, justice, wisdom and temperance.

And here on the weekend we take a deeper dive into those same topics. We interview Stoic philosophers, we reflect, we prepare.

We think deeply about the challenging issues of our time. And we work through this philosophy in a way that's more possible here when we're not Russian to worker to get the kids to school.

And we have the time to think, to go for a walk, to sit with our journals and to prepare for what the future will bring.

Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. Today I wanted to present to you three Stoic phrases, three Stoic concepts that I think will resonate with you.

I know you're familiar with all of them. Well, I hope you're familiar with all of them. So I won't spoil them. But in this form, this is adapted from a video we've done.

The video has been seen almost a million times. It's got almost 50,000 thumbs up on YouTube. It's one of our most popular videos.

So I thought I would share it with you. We'll get right into it. But I think these words will help you in the difficult situations of life. These are sort of mantras. I try to repeat to myself on a daily basis.

You don't have to, you know, maybe not all of them. We're going to resonate with you. But I think at least one out of three should hit you. And hopefully you can find a situation in the upcoming days and weeks ahead that you can apply this to your actual life.

This will help you in a turning point, a decision, a challenge, a temptation. And let's see what you can do with it.

What the Stoic's talk about is the idea of loving what happens. Marcus really says that what you throw on top of a fire is fuel for the fire.

So what you want to cultivate, what you have to practice, you have to almost repeat it like a mantra to yourself is the practice of loving everything that happens.

Not just accepting it, not just tolerating it, but leaning into it going, this is for me. I chose this. I wanted this way. And it's the best fucking thing that ever happens to me.

When the computer eats the manuscript you've been working on, you say, a more faulty. I love it. When you're stuck in traffic, you say a more faulty. I love it.

When you're criticized on Twitter, when your boss calls you out, you say, a more faulty. I love it. I'm going to be better for this haven't happened to me.

When you're hungry, you say, I love it. I'm alive. I feel this. I'm going to make the most of it. You say a more faulty.

When you lose someone you love, it might seem crazy to say a more faulty, but no amount of anger, no amount of resentment, no amount of sadness brings them back.

So you take what you can from this. That's what a more faulty is. You use it as fuel. You become better from it. You become improved by it.

You have cancer, you're disabled, you're white, or black, you're short, or tall, you're rich, or poor. A more faulty. I'm going to make the most of it. I'm not going to let this stop me. I'm going to be better for this haven't happened.

When Thomas Edison's factory burned down, he finds his son, his son, his son, shell-shocked. That's how most people are when they face obstacles.

But Edison grabbed them and he said, go get your mother and all her friends. They'll never see a fire like this again. That's what a more faulty is. I'm going to use this.

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