The Daily Stoic - Having Flaws Does Not Mean You ARE Flawed

Episode Date: August 31, 2022

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Each one of these passages is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us dailystowup.com. You are not the problem. Epic Titus' most powerful line is about how it's not things that upset us, but what we think about things that does all the damage. What he really meant is that our sense of what an obstacle or a disadvantage or a trial is,

our subjective understanding is more powerful than the objective reality. For instance, if you tell yourself that you were failed by your teachers, and that's why you're not as smart as other people, for the rest of your life, you're going to have trouble learning and understanding things.

It may be true that your teachers were less than adequate, but this story you've chosen to tell yourself is the true failure. And you can see how a person who tells themselves a different story about the same facts. For instance, I attended underperforming schools, but my hunger for learning allowed me to rise above it, or my street smarts make up for what I lack in education, will do much better in life. As Epic Tita said, sickness is an impediment to the body, but not to the will, unless the will wants to be impeded.

Lainness is an impediment to the leg, but not to the will. If you tell yourself this every time you will find the impediment is to something else, but not to yourself. And let's not forget, he was saying this as a person whose leg was crippled from his time as a slave, no less. He refused to see a physical impairment as something that changed who he was as a person. He refused to tell himself that depressingly myopic narrative that he was somehow inherently broken or deprived as a result of this injury. Instead, you can see in his teachings that over and over again, he chose to tell

himself a bigger, better story, that he had learned how powerful he really was, that no person could stop or harm him, even if they tried. That's the narrative we want for ourselves. Yes, we have problems, but we are not the problem. We have flaws, but we are not flawed. We might do something dumb, but that doesn't mean we are dumb. We decide what things mean. We decide what is actually an obstacle and what isn't. We have the power.

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