The Daily Stoic - Each of Us Has a Job to Do

Episode Date: December 8, 2020

"Today, we find ourselves in the teeth of a global pandemic, one with a mortality rate close to the Antonine Plague that killed millions of people during Marcus Aurelius’ reign. Our medical efforts are running behind. Our supply chains are overtaxed. The cowardice and incompetence of many governments (or rather the heads of many governments, since responsibility falls on the leader, whether they accept it or not) has been laid bare. So what do we do?"Ryan explains how we must handle this new, dangerous stage of the pandemic, on 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 Daily Stoic: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.

Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stood Podcast early and add free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. Hi, I'm David Brown, the host of Wundery's podcast business wars. And in our new season, Walmart must fight off target. The new discounter that's both savvy and fashion forward. Listen to business wars on Amazon Music or wherever you get your podcasts. music or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome to the Daily Stoic. 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 dailystowach.com. Each of us has a job to do. The world is constantly grappling with vexing problems. This was true in the times of Zeno and Marcus A really as just as it's true today. Big and small, immediate and on the looming horizon, we have always been in crisis from wars to plagues, to civil unrest, to natural disasters. It is the story of human life on this planet. It is the story of history, as we've said. Things keep happening. things keep going wrong. They always have, they always will, provided that is,

that we keep solving them and keep surviving. Today, we find ourselves in the teeth of a global pandemic, one with the mortality rate close to the Antonin plague that killed millions of people during Marcus Aurelius' reign. Our medical efforts are running behind, our supply chains are overtaxed. The cowardice and incompetence of many governments are rather the heads of many governments since the responsibility falls on the leader,

whether they accept that or not, has been laid there. So what do we do? We must pull together as humans have for centuries. As since the Nattas was called from his fields to save Rome, as citizens were called to plant victory gardens in the Second World War, as activists and ordinary people rose up to give women the right to vote and civil rights to all people, as the free world rose up collectively to roll back the tide of Soviet aggression in arms and in finance. So, too, are we being called again,

whether you're a senator or stocking shelves in a warehouse, each of us has an important job to do, especially at a moment like this. The stones believe that each of us was important, that each person focusing on what they could control would be able to collectively to turn the tide of history. Marcus really has wrote that even people asleep, even the shameless and the terrible were part of the equation, even those incompetent leaders are helping to wake us up and remind

people that we have to save ourselves. That's what sympathy is really about, that we are this large whole. Each of us, rich and poor, educated or not is important. Each of us can make a difference by keeping our families safe, by making smart decisions, by helping our neighbors, by voting, by keeping calm, by bringing our network to bear on problems, by sacrificing, by taking care of our health

and listening to instructions, by delivering the mail or treating patients or investing in the market, whatever our job happens to be, do your job, do it with courage, temperance, justice, and wisdom come together with the team, and we'll get through this. Hey, thanks for listening to the Daily Stoke podcast.

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