Yours Is Not to Reason Why
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 4 May 2020
⏱️ 2 minutes
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Summary
"It just doesn’t make sense, does it?
They have every incentive in the world to get it right, and they can’t. They’re putting their own livelihood at risk. All the information is out there. They had the same opportunities as you did, maybe even better ones.
And yet… and yet… "
Ryan discusses how you can keep from being distracted by the actions of others.
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| 0:13.6 | 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. |
| 0:23.3 | 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 DailyStoke.com. |
| 0:37.3 | Yours is not to reason why. It doesn't make sense. It just doesn't make sense. Does it? They have every incentive in the world to get it right and they can't. |
| 0:47.3 | They're putting their own livelihood at risk. All the information is out there. They've had the same opportunities as you, maybe even better ones. And yet, and yet, it doesn't matter what we're talking about or who the reality is that life is going to be filled with baffling events and baffling people. You better get used to it. |
| 1:06.3 | Marcus Aurelius knew this. He reminded himself in meditations how fruitless it was to go around asking why. It doesn't matter why things happen the way they did. It doesn't matter whose fault it was. |
| 1:18.3 | Nothing is more pathetic, he wrote than people who run around in circles delving into the things that lie beneath and conducting investigations into the souls of the people around them. All of that is a distraction. It's a distraction from what's at hand. It's a distraction, he said. |
| 1:34.3 | From the real power that you have over yourself over what you do today, we must focus. We must ignore those vexing unanswerable questions. We must resist the temptation to speculate and delve and debate because we have work to do. We have real power to exercise. |
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