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

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

After everything that's happened in the last few years, we're tired.

After everything that's happened in your life, after everything that's

gone wrong the last couple weeks, you think to yourself, I can't handle one more thing going

wrong. Certainly, Marcus Aurelius would have related to that sentiment. Floods and plagues and wars,

a troubled sun, personal health issues. Haven't I given enough? We have Mark Srealis say in a recent Daily Stoic video.

The thing is life doesn't care, has no time for your questions,

it pays no mind to your limits.

I don't think I'm up for this,

the novelist John Gregory Dunn said to his wife

as they left the hospital after rushing to check on their daughter,

who had just been admitted. He was down about his career. He wasn't feeling great about his own

health. He was sick about his only child. He was worried it would be a long and hard road ahead for them.

Joan Didion, his steely, stoic wife, responded with something we could imagine Marcus Aurelius

reminding himself of in meditations.

You don't get a choice, she says.

Fortune behaves as she pleases, the Stoic said.

Life disposes.

It decides.

The only thing we get a choice in is how we respond.

If you're selling online or out of a storefront, full-time, or a side hustle, you know it's a challenge.

...