The Daily Stoic - This Is a Game of Inches

Episode Date: April 24, 2020

"Zeno lost everything in a shipwreck in the 3rd century BC. A family fortune. His occupation. Everything. He washed up in Athens anonymous and penniless. When he died, an old man, some forty years later, he was not only prosperous, he was one of the wisest men in the world. He’d been offered the keys to Athens and an honorary citizenship too. The school he founded, on the old stoa in Agora, would influence millions of people for the next two thousand years. How did he do it? How did he recover? How did he make his way to greatness?"Find out 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: 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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strength, insight, wisdom necessary for living good 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 dailystowach.com. This is a game of inches. Zeno lost everything in a shipwreck in the 3rd century BC. A family fortune, his occupation, everything.

He washed up in Athens, anonymous, and penniless. And when he died an old man, some 40 years later, he was not only prosperous, he was one of the wisest men in the world. He had been offered the keys to Athens in an honorary citizenship too. The school he founded on the old stoa in the Agora would influence millions of people for the next 2,000 years. How did he do it? How did he recover? How did he make his way to greatness? The same way that the NFL linebacker Ryan Schaezer and aspiring Stoic would work his way back from that freak-on-field tackle that left him paralyzed.

One small bit of progress after the next. Well, being Xeno one said is realized by small steps, but it is no small thing. She's here at once pointed out that football is a game of inches. And so too was his recovery from a hospital bed to a wheelchair, then gaining back the ability to move his muscles, then standing unassisted, then taking one step, then taking more, then being able to jog, then being able to do a three-foot box jump. The ceiling on his come back, there isn't one. He's going to keep going as long as there is breath in his body. And so must you. There is no question that we face real problems right now. Perhaps you lost your job or you lost a fortune or you lost your wife or yourself confidence.

Whatever the problem, whatever the cause, whether it was this pandemic or just an ordinary stroke of bad luck, the solution is the same. To keep going. To assemble your life as Marcus Aurelius advised action by action, inch by inch, stacking one small step on to one small step, because no one can stop you from that. For the last six months, Daily Stoke has been developing the Daily Stoke Habits Challenge, Habits for Success, Habits for Happiness.

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