Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast. On Friday we do double duty not just reading our daily meditation

but also reading a passage from The Daily Stoic, my book, 366 meditations on wisdom,

perseverance in the art of living, which I wrote with my wonderful

collaborator, translator, and literary agent, Stephen Hanselman.

So today, we'll give you a quick meditation

from the Stoics with some analysis from me,

and then we'll send you out into the world

to turn these words in to works.

You don't get a choice.

After everything that's happened in the last few years, we're tired.

After everything that's happened in your life,

after everything that's gone wrong the last couple weeks,

you think to yourself, I can't handle one more thing going wrong

certainly Marcus Aurelius would have related to that sentiment floods and plagues and

wars a troubled son, personal health issues.

Haven't I given enough?

We have Marx's real estate in a recent daily stoic video.

The thing is life doesn't care,

has no time for your questions. It pays no mind to your limits.

I don't think I'm up for this. The novelist John Gregory Dunn said to his wife as they

left the hospital after Russian to check on their daughter who had just been admitted.

He was down about his career, he wasn't feeling great about his own health. He was sick about his only child.

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