The Daily Stoic - It Ain’t The Whole World

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Starting point is 00:01:50 history's greatest men and women to help you learn from them, to follow in their example, and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom. For more, visitdailystoic.com. It ain't the whole world. It can be easy to forget it in the depths of winter or the dolder. of summer, or in the middle of an interminable divorce or the brutal bear market. You know, when it feels like forever, when it feels like things will never change, you just lose track, you get confused, you start to give up. January ain't the whole world, Bonnie Vair sings in the song, Short Story.

Starting point is 00:02:49 He's saying that winter doesn't last forever, no season does, and it's also worth pointing out that January isn't winter for the whole world. either. But again, this is easy to forget when the news is dark or everything is going poorly at work. You can start to think it will always be this way or that it is this way for everyone or that it's going to get worse. Your child is sick, Marcus Aurelius reminds himself in meditations. Leave it there, he says. You don't have to tell yourself that they might die from it. Extrapulation, we have to understand, is the enemy. January is January. A slump is a slump. They're not fun, but neither are they the whole world or forever.

Starting point is 00:03:33 Remember that this moment is not your life, goes one of the most quoted lines in the obstacles the way. It is just a moment in your life.

The Daily Stoic - It Ain’t The Whole World

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