The Daily Stoic - The Gift Of Having To Start Over
Episode Date: October 1, 2021Ryan explains the other-side of the disorder and devastation that has come from the pandemic, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.Ryan Holiday’s new book Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favor...s The Brave is out now! You can still get the preorder bonuses at https://dailystoic.com/preorderSign 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.
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The gift of having to start over.
It's scary to start over.
It's scary to pursue a new career, to pursue that tugging interest, to step into uncertainty,
to be single again.
It takes courage or a catastrophe.
We had Chris Gillebo on the podcast not long ago, and he's helped millions of people reinvent
themselves in their careers. His latest book, The Money Tree, is the story of overcoming
a significant struggle and discovering meaning and self-reliance on the other side of it.
And when I talked to him at the beginning of the pandemic,
we were talking about how there are millions of people
who suddenly have had no choice but to start over.
And this is what he said.
He said, first of all, congratulations on reaching
such a remarkable opportunity.
Starting over means you have the chance to build what you really want.
Imagine building a sand castle and then seeing it destroyed by a freak tidal wave.
You're disappointed, right? But then you start over and maybe the new one is better.
It doesn't take as long to build and you make improvements as you go based on the sand castle building skills you've acquired.
Or maybe you just realize you're tired of building San Castles
so you leave and do something else. On the other side of this disordered state
we're all in now, I think we'll see a number of tremendous shifts
and positive changes from so many people. And look, in lies of the Stoics,
I tell the story of Zeno's shipwreck, which was devastating to his business, but transformative to his life.
It led to his founding of Stoicism, after all.
He could have been wrecked, instead he saw it as an opportunity.
And years later, Zeno would say, I made a prosperous voyage when I suffered shipwreck.
He said, well done, fortune, to drive me thus to philosophy.
If you've lost your job,
if you've gone through a painful breakup,
if you've been forced to start over,
if you're San Castle or your ship has been swallowed up
by this freak tidal wave that was COVID-19 in the year 2020
and 2021, well, congratulations.
You've been gifted a remarkable opportunity.
You get to choose the life you want to build.
Well done fortune, you can say, to drive me thus to the life I've always wanted.
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