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Welcome to the Daily Stoke. For 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.

You have to have a vision. The class of 2020 has had it rough. Just look at the last few months here in the United States. Only the fourth impeachment in the nation's history, a near war with Iran, then a global pandemic.

And now the highest unemployment ever recorded, not exactly an encouraging time to go out into the world, make it on your own. Arnold Schwarzenegger faced a number of obstacles when he came into the world. Europe had been ravaged by the Second World War. There were few opportunities in his home country of Austria. He arrived in America was so little money that he got by by laying bricks. He lost his brother and his father by the time he was 25. He had what many would have described in the past.

He was described as a crippling accent and yet somehow he made it. How, how did he overcome the innumerable obstacles and difficulties? As you've told the class of 2020 in a wonderful commencement address, which quotes Marcus Aurelius' line about how the impediment to action advances action. It's about vision.

You have to have a sense of where you're going because if you don't know, how can you know how to respond to the troubles that pop up along the way. Marcus Aurelius knew that he wanted to be a great emperor. He knew the philosophy he was trying to live up to. He knew the example he was trying to set for history. So when difficulties arose from ill health to pandemics to palace coups, he had a framework to rely on. He had something to persevere for.

Same with Stockdale, his vision was making it out and turning his ordeal into the kind of life changing event that in the end he would not trade for. That was his vision and it got him through unimaginable difficulty.

Whether you're graduating or the parent of a graduate doesn't matter. This advice holds true. You have to have a vision. You have to know where you are going. You have to know what you're moving towards.

Otherwise, you will not make it there. The impediment to action advances action. But only if you know where you're trying to advance and the kind of person you want to be when you get there.

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