The Daily Stoic - You Just Have To Accept It

Episode Date: June 15, 2021

“When the pandemic hit—as with all sudden or unexpected life events—people responded in myriad different ways. Some people denied it. Some people hoped to be exempted from it. Other people cowered in fear of it. As you likely saw among your own peer group, none of these responses were particularly effective.”Ryan explains why you must always stare unflinchingly at reality, 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/dailystoicTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@daily_stoic See 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 Stoic Podcast early and add free on Amazon Music. Download the app today. Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom every day life. Each one of these passages is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us dailystoward.com. You just have to accept it. When the pandemic hit, as with all sudden or unexpected life events, people responded in myriad different ways. Some people denied it. Some people hoped to be exempted from it. Some people coward in fear of it. And as you likely saw among your own peer group, none of these responses were particularly effective. When I talk to Jaco Willink, the Daily Stoke podcast, towards the beginning of the pandemic, he explained that there

was one type of person among his client base of businesses and on profits and military leaders who had managed to thrive during these unusual times. He said they were the ones who accepted the reality of the situation immediately, unflinchingly. They didn't deny, they didn't run, they didn't expect magical thinking to rescue them, no, they got to work. You have to remember the imperative of the Stockdale Paradox, influenced as it was by Epic Titus. You accept with complete honesty the perils of the obstacle in front of you, but you remain

convinced that if it is possible to survive, not only will you, but you will also turn this into the best thing that ever happened to you. It's essential that we do not mistake this realism, this fatalism for passivity, because it's not. However, there is no progress without first accepting the particulars of the circumstances you find yourself in. Lying, denying, pretending, hoping that something, anything will save you, besides yourself, is a fool's errand.

You must face it. You have to see the reality. And then, most importantly, you must get to work. That's how you turn the obstacle into the way. That's why I have it tattooed on my arm. The obstacle is the way. That's what my first book of the soicism is about. And the leather bound edition of the obstacle is the way is now on sale.

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