The Daily Stoic - It’s Good.

Episode Date: December 21, 2021

Ryan discusses how you can turn anything into a good thing, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.Check out the Amor Fati Challenge Coin in the Daily Stoic Store.Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/emailFollow 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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For more, you can visit us at dailystowup.com. It's good. Stuff goes wrong. That's a fact of life. As Seneca said, Fortune behaves just as she pleases. His own life was proof of that. A health flare-up disrupted his career. An emperor exiled him.

He clawed his way back. Only to have it happen again. Nearly all of this was out of Seneca's control. The only part that was up to him was how he chose to see those events and what he chose to do with them. He chose to see them as a good thing, chose to use them, chose to die those events with his own color. Jocco Willink, in his famous viral speech, explains how we do this, how we can see everything

that happens to us as good. As he says, oh, the mission got canceled good. We can focus on another one. Didn't get the new high-speed gear we wanted good. We can keep it simple. Didn't get promoted good. More time to get better. Didn't get the new high-speed gear we wanted good. We can keep it simple. Didn't get promoted good. More time to get better. Didn't get funded. Good. We own more of the company. Didn't get the job you wanted. Good. Go out, gain more experience. Build a better resume. Got injured. Good.

Needed a break from training. Got tapped out. Good. It's better to tap out and training than tap out on the street. Got beat, good. We learned. Unexpected problems, good. We have to figure out solutions. This is really a stoic prescription. This is the stoic prescription. It's also the prescription for leadership,

for entrepreneurship, for resiliency. Life just throws stuff at you. You are the one who decides to lay down and let it bury you or to make hay out of it. You are the one who decides whether to bury your head in the sand and hope it goes away or to look at square in the eye as bad as it is. It's a good. Those are your choices. Choosing to see the bad things is ultimately good, is all you can do. It's what you must do because people are depending on you because you believe in your ability to make it good because you have but one life to live a more fati. a more Fati.

That's actually my a more Fati challenge coin, not merely to bear what is necessary, but love it. That's what Nietzsche said, Marx really says that a fire digest what is thrown on top of it, it turns it to flame and brightness. And that's what Jocco was talking about. That's what the Stoics were talking about. That's what I try to remind myself of.

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