The Daily Stoic - You Think You’re So Powerful

Episode Date: December 4, 2020

"You’re smart. You’re experienced. You’ve made a bunch of money. You have a few prestigious letters before or after your name. You’re a citizen of this country or that one. You���re got an impressive physique. You have a large following. We can start to feel pretty good about ourselves… and then life has a way of reminding us how meaningless these things really are. "Ryan explains how your personal attributes are less important than how you respond to life, 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. You think you're so powerful. You're smart, you're experienced, you made a bunch of money, you have a few prestigious letters before or after your name. You're a citizen of this country or that one. You've got an impressive physique. You have a large following. We can start to feel pretty good about ourselves

and then life has a way of reminding us how meaningless these things really are. Seneca was the brightest mind of his era from an important family, totally innocent and in bam, exiled by Claudius. Theodore Roosevelt was as happy as could be, then boom, the light went out of his life.

Zeno was in the prime of his merchant career when a shipwreck drove him out of business. Marcus Aurelius was chosen out of nowhere to be emperor and then out of nowhere, a plague disrupted all of his plans for a philosophical and peaceful reign. It doesn't matter how smart or experienced or rich you are, your job title or your ambitions or the size of your fan base It doesn't matter life can humble you life will humble you Nothing insulates you from getting dumped or dumped on nothing exempts you from pain or pandemics

No one can promise you ease or safety no insurance or government can make you whole. You are not powerful. None of us are. Every one of us is at the mercy of events. All we control is how we respond. All that's up to us is what we do. Next. Hey, thanks for listening to the Daily Stoke Podcast. You can sign up to get our daily email at dailystoke.com slash email.

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