The Daily Stoic - The Whiplash is Your Fault

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Starting point is 00:00:50 The Whiplash is your fault. It felt like things were heading in the right direction, like things were finally getting better. Not just right now with the pandemic or the political situation, but on so many other occasions in our lives, when we went through what we thought was the hardest part of a situation and figured that of course we over soon, that of course things would go back to normal to the way that they used to be. Did that happen?

Starting point is 00:01:22 Does that ever happen? No, it does not. James Stockdale was one's asked, who struggled the most in the famous Hanway Hilton? Oh, that's easy, he said. It was the optimists. Dr. Edith Inger, on the Daily Stooded Podcast with me, talked about a campmate in Auschwitz who was convinced they'd be rescued by Christmas. On that day when the liberation did not come, her friend died of a broken heart. The situation that we're in right now, it's not our fault. We didn't cause the pandemic.

Starting point is 00:01:58 We didn't ask for this miserable period at work. We're not the ones who prescribed six to eight weeks of recovery for the injury that was a freak accident. And nor is it our fault if this drags on longer than predicted or something else happens on top of what has already occurred. But, Aesthetic doesn't make things worse with optimism. That is, fixate on conditional hopes about things that are outside of our control. Instead, we settle in. We are comfortable with this comfort. We make the most of this moment in front of us.

Starting point is 00:02:33 That's a lifetime or dead time. We don't complain. We don't fool ourselves with mirages or wishful thinking because to do otherwise would be to add whiplash and disappointment on top of our trouble. And the last thing we need in times of difficulty is a bowed head and a stopped neck which prevent us from seeing what's coming next around the corner. Just a reminder my new book Courage is Calling is available for pre-order now. It would mean so much to me if you would support it.

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The Daily Stoic - The Whiplash is Your Fault

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