Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world.

Use this as practice. You woke up with a sore throat. You've been vomiting all day. You've got a fever that won't break. It feels like you're going to die. You won't, almost certainly, because it's just the flu. But it sure feels like it. Which is why you should use this as practice. Not Mementomori practice, but practice dealing with pain. Practice with dealing with a body that's being put through something that doesn't control

and doesn't have much of a say about.

Marcus Aurelius, who dealt with a series of chronic illnesses,

tried to use these bouts as a chance to be philosophical.

For times when you feel pain, he writes in meditations,

see that it doesn't disgrace you or degrade your intelligence, doesn't keep it from acting rationally or unselfishly.

And in most cases, what Epicura said should also help, that pain is neither unbearable nor

unending, as long as you keep in mind its limits and don't magnify them in your

imagination. Your symptoms will abate eventually. You'll get through this in a couple of days or a week.

That's the blessing here, that it's not more serious. In the meantime, though, use this as practice.

Get your reps in, because none of us have any idea what life has in store for us in the future.

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