The Daily Stoic - We Are All Tested In Different Ways

Episode Date: May 3, 2022

Ryan talks about how every situation is a test.Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/emailFollow us: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, and FacebookSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stoke podcast early and add free on Amazon music. Download the app today. Welcome to the Daily Stoke. For each day, we read a short passage designed to help you cultivate the strength, insight, wisdom necessary for living the good life. 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. We are all tested in different ways. It was said that Socrates saw his difficult marriage as a sort of challenge that life threw at him, that the fact that his wife's personality and interests were often at odds with his own

was something he could be made better for by being patient with. Certainly Marcus Aurelius was tested by his difficult son, and likely spent many sleepless nights worrying about what would become of this boy boy who just couldn't quite get it together. So too are each of us tested by the difficult relationships that life throws our way. For some of us that's an absent father. For others it's a sister with a drug problem. We have co-workers who are drama queens, bosses who are assholes, and neighbors who are metalsome. Each of these situations is a trial, one that challenges us and forces us to apply the lessons we've learned in our

reading and through our studies. Can you learn how to love someone who has trouble loving you back? Can you learn how to forgive someone for their flaws? Can you develop the self-control necessary not to lose your temper when they provoke you? Can you put the self-control necessary not to lose your temper when they provoke you? Can you put up appropriate boundaries? Can you say no when it's appropriate and say yes when someone really needs you, even when it would be easier for you to focus on your own needs?

Relationships test us, but they also teach us. They bring with them both obstacles and opportunities. What matters then is how we respond and who we become in the process. No one ever said that family or friendships would be easy. They just said the trouble would be worth it in the end. Please check out the Daily Stoke Store where we sell products that we ourselves use that are designed to take these Stoke lessons to the next level. Just go to dailystoke.com slash store.

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