We Are Better For This | On Being Invincible

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🗓️ 4 February 2025

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We’d prefer to be less hemmed in, to have more freedom, to have fewer rules. But we are made better for the constraints of life.

Today's entry in The Daily Stoic: On Being Invincible

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2:00.5	We are better for this. We'd prefer everything go our way. We'd prefer we have space and time.
2:08.0	We'd prefer to be less hemmed in to have more freedom to have fewer rules. Nobody wishes for
2:13.4	obstacles. Nobody's glad for Murphy's Law were indeed most regulations. Yet these things make
2:20.2	us better, whether we understand it or not. Montaigne, the 16th century philosopher, was inclined to
2:26.3	poetry as a lover of literature, but he also saw poetry as a metaphor for life, as the early Stoics did.
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