Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues,

courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world.

They should have what they want. It's probably not going to be what they hope. It's not going to

feel as they dreamed. It's not going to make them happy. It's not going to satisfy them. It's probably not going to be what they hope. It's not going to feel as they dreamed.

It's not going to make them happy. It's not going to satisfy them. It rarely does, right?

Historically, that is. Has any conqueror ever been satisfied? Has any conquest ever not been

a little bittersweet, a little underwhelming? How often do any of the things that people dream

of and lust for and fight over

end up producing happiness? The Stelics knew this, and deep down we do too, even if we lose sight of it

time and time again. So we must step back and let people choose for themselves. We should repeat to

ourselves, as Taylor Swift says,

And they should have what they want, they deserve what they want, I hope they get what they want.

Because it's not our place to yuck other people's yums. It's not our place to judge. It's not our

place to interfere. What we should focus on is where we are lusting and dreaming and fighting

for so-called externals. We should think about where we have made our happiness conditional

on this or that achievement, on this or that identity which lies outside our control.

We should remind ourselves that we have plenty right now, that we can feel good, feel enough

right now.

We've got an employee here at Daily Stoke.

I won't say who because it's kind of private, but they've been using Monarch,

today's sponsor, to track their progress as they try to pay off their student loan debts.

I'm a college dropout, so I don't have any debt, thankfully, but I can only imagine how

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