The Daily Stoic - Just Shrug It Off Pt 2
Episode Date: December 19, 2019Epictetus tells us the story of a Stoic philosopher named Agrippinus, who, during Nero’s reign, was delivered some awful news one morning: He was exiled. Effective immediately. Agrippinus�...�s response? “Very well, we shall take our lunch in Aricia.” Meaning: We might as well get this show on the road. No use bemoaning or weeping about it. Hey, is anyone else hungry? That’s how a Stoic responds—they shrug off the emotional weight of even the worst news. They have humor about it. They focus on what they can control and they let go of everything outside of it. Like Agrippinus, like Walker Percy did, like you can if you put in the work. If you practice, if you rehearse, if you steel yourself for the fact that life inevitably will deliver these moments to us. Being exiled. Finding out you got fired. Hearing that your computer just deleted a year of hard work. Being informed that you just lost the election. None of that is fun. It’s often unfair. You can let it crush you. You can fall to your knees and tear out your hair. Or you can shrug it off, and start thinking about lunch. It’s your call.See 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 shrug it off, part two.
A pictorist tells us the story of a stoic philosopher named Agrippinus, who during Nero's reign
was delivered some awful news one morning.
He was exiled.
Effective immediately, Agrippinus's response, very well,
we shall take our lunch in Arisia.
Meaning we might as well get this show on the road.
No use but moaning or weeping about it.
Hey, is anyone else hungry?
That's how a stoic responds.
They shrug off even the worst news.
They have humor about it.
They focus on what they can control
and they let go of everything else outside of it.
Like a grippinous, like Walker Percy did,
like you can do if you put in the work.
If you practice, if you rehearse,
if you steal yourself for the fact
that life will inevitably
deliver these moments to us.
Being exiled, finding out that you got fired, hearing that your computer just deleted
a year of hard work, being informed that you just lost the election, none of that is fun.
It's often unfair.
You can let it crush you.
You can fall to your knees and tear out your hair.
You can shrug it off and you can start thinking about lunch.
It's your recall. your knees and tear out your hair, we can shrug it off and you can start thinking about lunch.
It's your call.
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