Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation

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

Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of

history's greatest men and women to help you learn from them, to follow in their example,

and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom.

For more, visitdailystoic.com. This is it, isn't it? No one wants to have to use their contingency plans to do what they plan for in a worst-case scenario.

No one wants to break that glass in case of emergency. No one wants to have to use stoicism, not at least the kind of

stoicism that Marcus Reelis used in the midst of plagues and wars and coups and strategies.

At the same time, what was that plan for, if not for this? What was the emergency equipment for?

And wasn't that why people taught this philosophy designed for

adversity and difficulty for all these years? It was obviously for moments like this. Epictetus

once said that the whole point of stoicism was to be able to put ourselves in a position

where whatever happened, we could say, this is what I trained for. Well, that's what this is, isn't it?

One of those moments.

Now you get to use it.

Now you must use it.

Focus on what you control.

Keep your cool.

Do the right thing.

Be brave.

Lead.

Because if you're not going to do it now, when will you?

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