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I'm Ryan Holiday, and I draw these lessons from ancient philosophy, modern psychology, practical wisdom, and insights from

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Of course, her father would have preferred to be powerful, to be wealthy, to hold some prestigious position.

He didn't want to dig sewage canals or wait on entitled aristocrats.

He didn't want to be seen at the bottom of Rome's social hierarchy. Nobody would

have chosen that life. But in the girl who would be free like in life itself, Epictetus's

father doesn't have a choice. Not about their situation anyway, their status, not in a place like

ancient Rome. He couldn't choose his fate so he chose instead to focus

on how he bore that fate. We didn't choose this, he tells his daughter, but we can choose not to add to

our troubles by complaining about them. When she turns up her nose at their dirty job, he tells her

how you do anything is how you do everything. And if you do it

well, it can be beautiful, no matter what it is. He refuses to be humiliated, refuses to be broken.

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