The Daily Stoic - Remove These Three Words From Your Life

Episode Date: May 29, 2020

"You’ve said them a thousand times. You said them when you were a kid. You said them last year. You’ve caught yourself saying them recently as you watched the world tear apart your carefully made plans.It’s not fair."Find out how to get "it's not fair" out of your system 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 @DailyStoic:Twitter: https://twitter.com/ryanholidayInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ryanholiday/Facebook: http://facebook.com/ryanholidayYouTube: 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.

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that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at dailystowach.com. Remove these three words from your life. You've said them a thousand times. You said them when you were a kid. You said them last year. You caught yourself saying them recently as you watched the world tear apart,

you're carefully made plans. It's not fair. They are three words favored by kids and angry adults alike when we want things to be otherwise. When we are caught by surprise, when we, the people who pay our taxes, who try to always do, it's right, get stuck with the consequences of something that wasn't our fault. When we talked to Tim Ferris a few weeks ago for the Daily Stoke podcast, if you don't listen to our weekend episodes, you should. He advised that you strip these three words out of your vocabulary because they are impotent and meaningless because they don't do anything but make you upset. No one promised you that the world was fair. Certainly, the Stokes never did. No, the Stokes told you that life was going to be hard. They warned you that fortune was capricious and cruel.

They told you that bad things happened to good people. They told you to get ready, that preparation and endurance were the only options on an unpredictable planet. Remember what Marcus really has said, it's choosing to feel harmed that adds pain on top of objective events, trying to project standards of fairness and order onto a pandemic, onto cancer,

onto something as random as the economy or the climate. It's only going to make you miserable. It's only going to set you up for disappointment. You're feeling that right now because you forgot, it's not things that upset us. It's our judgment about things. So stop thinking about what's fair or unfair, awful or awesome and focus on what is that's plenty to deal with.

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