The Daily Stoic - Congratulations, You Get to Start Over

Episode Date: July 27, 2020

"It’s fitting that the story of Stoicism began with a catastrophe. On a merchant voyage between Phoenicia and Piraeus in the 3rd century BC, Zeno’s ship and all its cargo sank. Was it a terrible storm? Did jagged rocks tear their boat to pieces? Was it pirates or human error? No one knows. All we know is that by the end of it, Zeno was stranded somewhere in Athens, while his ship sat at the bottom of the sea."Find out how that story ended, and what lessons you can draw from it, in today's Daily Stoic Podcast.***If you enjoyed this week’s podcast, we’d love for you to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps with our visibility, and the more people listen to the podcast, the more we can invest into it and make it even better.Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/signupFollow @DailyStoic:Twitter: https://twitter.com/dailystoicInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic/Facebook: http://facebook.com/dailystoicYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/dailystoicSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at dailystowach.com. Congratulations, you get to start over. It's fitting that the story of stoicism began with a catastrophe on a merchant voyage in the Mediterranean in the third century BC, X Zeno ship and all its cargo sank. Was it a terrible storm? Did jagged rocks tear their boat to pieces? Was it pirates or human air?

No one knows. All we know is that by the end of it, Zeno was stranded somewhere in Athens and his ship sat on the bottom of the sea. And now, whether he wanted to or not, he had to start over. He could have resented this, he could have been bitter, but instead he got to work. He ascended to the reality, as the Stoics would say, ASSENTED ascended. You wouldn't be reading this email if he hadn't because without that ascent, stoicism would not exist. It's not fun to have to start over. Nobody wants

to rebuild or come home to a house with two feet of standing water in it or a bankruptcy to dig themselves out of. But we don't have a choice. Nor do we know where it will lead. Who knows, it could be for the best. Well done, Zeno would later say to Fortune, to drive me thus to philosophy. I made a prosperous voice, he said, when I suffered shipwreck, you didn't choose this, you didn't want it. It's not your fault. And yet, here it is. Congratulations. Get to work. If you like the podcast that we do here and you want to get it via email every morning, you can sign up at dailystoke.com slash email.

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