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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 rushing to worker to get the kids to school.

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.

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Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another weekend episode of the Daily Stoic.

We're going to get into something I've been thinking a lot about lately, both in my own life. And as I watch events of the world play out, and it's one of the things that when I've been lucky enough to talk to your consultant with sports teams, just one of the things that seems to be top of my life.

And so it seems to be top of mind for them. So we'll get into it. We're calling this the one thing that predicts everything. Something went wrong for Kyrie Irving in Cleveland, despite three trips to the finals and one championship.

And then what could have been a great team fell apart in Boston. And so far, Brooklyn has been a dud. One coach has already been driven away. And now the most recent just hired is already being set up to fail with heavy handed assertions about who is actually in charge.

Who could have seen this coming? Well, Kyrie could have by looking in the mirror indeed just about any casual observer knows what to expect at this point. And the secret is explained by an old Greek saying popular with the Stoics character is fate.

Not simply that good people do well and bad people fail. We know life is way more complicated than that. The proverb means that character traits predict what kinds of actions we'll see. The selfish person may succeed, but it will be lonely isolated success.

The corrupt will end up corrupting the institutions and the people around them. The ignorant will end up missing some critical piece of information that cost them. The paranoid will create the enemies they worry are out to get them. And the egotistical will ignore the warnings that could have saved them.

Who we are, what we believe the standard we hold ourselves to the things we do regularly, our personality traits, ultimately, these are all better predictors of the trajectory of our lives than talent resources for anything else.

Kyrie is from all reports sweet and serious and often generous. It's just also not surprising that a guy who at one point believed that the world was flat despite literally all evidence and information in the contrary would be a difficult guy to coach.

The impulse that broke apart a relationship with maybe the greatest basketball player of all time is not a singular one. It's one that will repeat itself over and over and over again.

What should surprise us is how many people failed to see this or managed to convince themselves that it would be different this time.

It's a phenomenon we see play out in the market and politics and relationships all the time. We want to see the best in someone so we ignore the obvious. We really want something so we deny the contrary evidence or the risk factors.

Sports is just such a great example of this Antonio Brown being the most recent bit of proof when people show you who they are Maya Angelou once said believe him, but we don't.

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