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Welcome to the Daily Stoic, where each day we read a short passage designed to help

you cultivate the strength, insight, wisdom necessary for living good life.

Each one of these passages is based on the 2000 year old philosophy that has guided some

of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at dailystoic.com.

We must be antifragile. The world is a cruel and random place. Our plans are dashed. Our

systems are broken. People we love die. We lose what we have built and what we have so

carefully saved and invested. We try to be stoke. We try to be strong, but sometimes

we falter. Is this weakness? No, this is a good thing. As Hemingway writes in one of the

most beautiful passages in a farewell to arms, the world eventually breaks all of us.

Afterwards, he says, many are strong at the broken places, but those that will not break,

it kills. Let us be clear about what stoicism is. In simple terms, it is a philosophy designed

to make you stronger so that you don't break easily. It is not, however, a philosophy

to make you unbreakable, at least not in the most easily understandable sense of that word,

because only the proud and the stupid thing that that is even possible. Instead, stoicism

is there to help you recover when the world breaks you and in the recovering to make you

stronger at a much, much deeper level. So much of what happens is out of our control,

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