The Daily Stoic - You Can Handle More Than You Can Handle
Episode Date: December 11, 2024You have so much more in you than it feels like you do. You got this.📕 Discipline is Destiny by Ryan Holiday 🎙️ Follow The Daily Stoic Podcast on Instagram🎥 Watch top moments from ...The Daily Stoic Podcast on YouTube✉️ 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/📱 Follow 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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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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You can handle more than you can handle.
It's too much, not another thing, not another problem,
not another person, not another piece of bad news.
You just can't handle it.
We all feel that way, but that doesn't mean it's true.
Athletes learn that your body is a liar,
that when you feel like you're at capacity,
you're not even close to your physical limitations.
Courtney Dewalter talked about this in an amazing episode
of the Daily Stoic podcast a while back. This is partly why Seneca talked about treating
the body rigorously so that we can learn to triumph over these limitations that
we get good at asserting who is actually in charge. I can handle way more than I
can handle, Bon Iver sings, and it's true. We all can. You have so much more in you
than it feels like you do.
And how do you know this?
Because the load you're handling today
dwarfs the load you could have carried
at other times in your life.
The things you are handling calmly today
would have freaked you out just a few years ago.
You have so much more capacity.
Your inner citadel is strong.
You got this.
And look, that's what I'm trying to say
in discipline is destiny. We've got to cultivate this destiny, that's what I'm trying to say in Discipline is Destiny.
We've got to cultivate this destiny,
this command of one's self.
So when we have command of oneself,
we can command ourselves in so many difficult
and stressful, even scary situations.
All the virtues are related.
There's a big overlapping here with courage.
Like, no, you can do it.
Don't be so afraid.
Courage is calling discipline is destiny
are two great places to start
if you wanna explore this idea a little bit more.
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