The Daily Stoic - Have You Tried Asking For This?
Episode Date: January 29, 2025Don’t wish for things to be a certain way, Epictetus says, but wish for them to be as they are. 🎙️ Follow The Daily Stoic Podcast on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dailystoi...cpodcast🎥 Watch top moments from The Daily Stoic Podcast on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@dailystoicpodcast✉️ Want Stoic wisdom delivered to your inbox daily? Sign up for the FREE Daily Stoic email at https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail🏛 Get Stoic inspired books, medallions, and prints to remember these lessons at the Daily Stoic Store: https://store.dailystoic.com/See 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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Just join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcast. and wisdom, everyday 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.
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Have you tried asking for this?
You wanted the election to go a certain way.
You want the economy to be good. You want the world to be safe. You want people to be good and helpful and
honest. Well, you can want these things until you're blue in the face. You can
pray for them. You can try with all your might to make them the way you want them
to be. Or what if you prayed and worked for something different? The Stoics
remind us that the best thing to ask for is strength, that adaptability is
the ultimate advantage, that virtue and resilience will get you further than even the most ideal
conditions, and that you're never going to get those ideal conditions anyway.
Don't wish for things to be a certain way, Epictetus says, but wish for them to be as
they are, because you can handle them, because you're gonna do your job either way,
which is to say to be good,
because you are going to make good of it.
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