The Daily Stoic - So, It’s Been a Rough Year?

Episode Date: November 5, 2020

"This has probably not been the year you expected. Few of us went into 2020 expecting an impeachment, a pandemic, murder hornets, earthquakes, fires, record-setting unemployment and god knows what else has hit you individually. Blew out your knee? Lost a big client? A falling out?It’s easy to sit here and say this has been a bad year. But is it really so bad? Is it 1865 bad? Winter of 1777 bad?"Ryan puts this crazy year into perspective in 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 Daily Stoic:Twitter: https://twitter.com/dailystoicInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic/Facebook: http://facebook.com/dailystoicYouTube: 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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For more, you can visit us at dailystowach.com. So it's been a bad year. This is probably not been the year you expected. Few of us went into 2020 expecting an impeachment, a pandemic, murder hornets, earthquakes, fires, record- record setting unemployment, and God knows what else has hit you individually. Did you blow out your knee, lose a big client, did you have a falling out? It's easy to sit here and say that this has been a bad year, but is it really so bad? Is it 1865 bad? Winter of 1777 bad? Was it as bad as many of the years of Marcus Aurelius' reign,

the years at the end of Nero's reign for Seneca, how about 1919 when there was a World War and a pandemic? Of course this is not to make light of any of our troubles. Things have gotten real, no one would deny that. The Stokes would have simply pointed out those other examples to help you see, you still have options left. There is still room to maneuver. All is not lost. They'd want you to have some perspective and to grasp this simple black and white truth. Humanity will either survive this or we won't. You will or you won't. Things look dark in 1777 and 1865 and 1919 and in 2009. But guess what?

We made it through. We survived. And the people who didn't, they got their own form of relief too, as hard as that is, to wrap our heads around in this moment. This hasn't been a bad year. It's been a year. A year more like some and less like others, but it is what it is. You don't control what it has been, but you still have some influence over where it's going. There's still a couple quarters left to play,

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