The Daily Stoic - It’ll Keep You Waiting
Episode Date: September 4, 2024Wisdom tells us that things are as they always have been…and always will be. So don’t take it all so personally.🎟 Ryan Holiday is going on tour! Grab tickets for London, Rotterdam, Dub...lin, Vancouver, and Toronto at ryanholiday.net/tour✉️ Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sign up for the FREE Daily Stoic email at https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail🏛 Get Stoic inspired books, medallions, and prints to remember these lessons at the Daily Stoic Store: https://store.dailystoic.com/📱 Follow us: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, and FacebookSee 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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Just join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcast. and wisdom, everyday 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
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It'll keep you waiting. Marcus Aurelius must have hoped for a better Rome than the one he lived in. He hoped people were capable of more, capable of better, and he was
disappointed. He was disappointed as people have always been disappointed.
That's what's so striking about meditations, how timeless many of his
frustrations are, how universal and modern many of his observations about
people seem to be. People have been waiting for the world to change
for a millennia.
People have been hoping that this time it's different,
that there's been a breakthrough in human nature,
but alas.
Look, individuals can change.
People, the world, it abideth forever.
It is undefeated.
This isn't to say that you shouldn't try.
This isn't to say that we can't make a difference here or there. This isn't to say that we can't try this isn't to say that We can't make a difference here or there
This isn't to say that we can't alleviate needless suffering or help others
It isn't to say that we ourselves can't be a bright light within that darkness
That's what the virtue of justice is all about what right thing right now is all about
But still wisdom tells us that things are as they've always been and always will be so don't take it all so personally
Don't let naive or false hope build you up
or break you down.
Don't stay up waiting for the world to change.
It probably won't.
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