The Daily Stoic - This Is the Power You Have

Episode Date: December 9, 2020

"Life is hard. We face insurmountable odds with so many problems. We get bad news. We mess up. We find out that what we wanted—what we deserve, what is fair—is just not in the cards for us. Think about Pete Frates. In his late 20s, he was hit by a pitch in an amateur league baseball game. At the doctor, shortly thereafter, it was discovered that he had ALS. Talk about “crying, stung by bee.” A sports injury uncovered a terminal diagnosis."Find out what Frates did in response to his diagnosis, and how you can embody his spirit, 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 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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greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at dailystowach.com. This is the power you have. Life is hard. We face insurmountable odds with so many problems. We get bad news. We mess up. We find out that what we wanted, what we deserve, what is fair is just not in the cards for

us. Think about Pete Freight's in his late 20s who was hit by a pitch in an amateur lead baseball game at the doctor shortly thereafter, it was discovered that he had ALS. Talk about crying stung by B, a sports injury uncovered a terminal diagnosis. That could have been the beginning of a sad story for Frates, but it wasn't. Instead, he threw himself into raising money for ALS. The man upstairs has a plan for me, he said,

this is the hand I've been dealt, and I've made my peace with it. There are people out there that don't have my support system or my advantages, and I want to help them. And he did. With the ALS bucket challenge, he helped raise over $200 million. Pete Freight's changed the trajectory of ALS forever and showed the world had a live with a fatal disease. The ALS

Association has said, even when he was paralyzed, real chair bound without the ability to talk and having to be fed through a tube, he never stopped. Up until the end, he was not resigned, he fought, he helped, he made a difference, he was not resigned. He fought. He helped. He made a difference. He did not give into despair. He adapted and transformed his fate into something that mattered. His courage, his creativity, his commitment, and models exactly what Marcus Arrelius wrote about in Meditations. Our inward power, he wrote, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces, to what is possible. It needs no specific material,

it pursues its own aims, as circumstances allow, it turns obstacles into fuel. As a fire overwhelms that, which would have quenched a lamp, what's thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed, consumed by it, and makes it burn higher. In December 2019, Pete Freight's passed away at the age of 34, his battle lasted eight years, but the fire he started will keep burning,

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