The Daily Stoic - This Reminder Hurts, But We Need It

Episode Date: May 28, 2021

“At the height of his powers, King Pyrrhus was killed by a roof tile, thrown by an old woman, as he conquered another city. In 1967, Harold Holt, the prime minister of Australia, went out for a swim in the ocean and simply never came back.”Ryan reminds you of the inevitable fact of your mortality, 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/dailystoicTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@daily_stoic 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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Each one of these passages is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of histories, greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at dailystoweth.com. This reminder hurts, but we need it. At the height of his powers, King Fieress was killed by a roof tile thrown by an old woman as he conquered another city. In 1967, Harold Holt, the prime minister of Australia, went out for a swim in the ocean and simply never came back. We like to think that power, that fame, that greatness, that money can protect us from the whims of fate, but of course,

it can't. We lost Kobe Bryant to a helicopter crash. Stevie Ray von Two, John Lennon was killed by a deranged twerp, John F. Kennedy by one, too. All the accomplishments, all the wonderful contributions to humanity, all the years they had left to live and gifts left to give, suddenly gone, cut off before their time, all the ambition, all the mountains they had their sights on climbing gone. It was juvenile who said that the whole world had not seemed big enough to contain Alexander the Great, then suddenly in an instant a coffin was sufficient. No matter how big we are, we can get cut down to size. We will get cut down to size. It's not a matter of if only when. That's why we say to ourselves several times a day,

Memento Mori. That's why we study history. That's why we read to ourselves several times a day, momento mori, that's why we study history, that's why we read these texts to remind ourselves of that inescapable fact that our ego wants to constantly ignore, that we are fragile humans, whether we are an emperor like Marcus Aurelius or a slave like Epictetus, we are at the mercy of forces we cannot predict, let alone control. We are mortal, we don't have forever. We are not

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