The Daily Stoic - You Decide the End of This Story

Episode Date: July 23, 2020

"I never lost faith in the end of the story, I never doubted not only that I would get out, but also that I would prevail in the end and turn the experience into the defining event of my life, which, in retrospect, I would not trade."Ryan discusses Admiral James Stockdale and the meaning of this quote in 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 @DailyStoic:Twitter: https://twitter.com/dailystoicInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic/Facebook: http://facebook.com/dailystoicYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/dailystoicSee 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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greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at dailystowach.com. You decide the end of this story. We spoke in of the great Admiral James Stockdale here many times. We told you how when he parachuted into that terrible prison camp, he knew that he would be tortured and possibly killed, and yet all that was on his mind in that moment were the teachings of Epictetus. We told you about how we made himself of service and into a leader for others, even as he was being tortured and trapped in leg irons. We have

spoken of his courage, his wisdom, his self discipline, and his sense of justice. But nothing better encapsulates the man and his heroism than this one quote, which applies today to our own adversity just as it did to the horrible ordeal that he went through. Stockdale said, I never lost faith in the end of the story. I never doubted not only that I would get out, but also that I would prevail in the end and turn the experience into the defining event of my life, which, in retrospect, I would not trade. We must never lose that faith. Does that mean we ignore the brutal reality of the current moment? Does that mean that we pretend that all as well, even as blows rain down upon us? No, of course not.

We must be realistic, we must be honest. Yet we should be ever confident of our ability to respond to the situation we have found ourselves in. We decide where this is going to go. We decide what we're going to get out of this. We will prevail in the end and turn this into the defining event of our lives. We will make it into something which we would not trade.

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