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The Daily Stoic
These Things Dont Care
These Things Dont Care

These Things Dont Care

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Ryan Holiday
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Jun 4, 2021
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Welcome to the Daily store podcast. Where each day, we bring you a
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passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength insight and wisdom everyday life. Each one of these passages is based on the 2000 year old philosophy that has guided some of History's
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Greatest men and women for more you can visit us a least out.com
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These things don't care, the virus doesn't care. It doesn't care that you were just about to open your first retail shop. It doesn't care that you love. Visiting your grandmother. It doesn't care that you recently finished chemotherapy. It doesn't care about the collateral damage. It doesn't care about your theories or your political beliefs. It doesn't care about anything and for the virus, we can plug in lots of things, fate death, tyrants time the economy, creative destruction.
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Action as the Tim McGraw song says the highway don't care. It doesn't care that you're a good person. Doesn't care that you look down at your phone for just one second. It doesn't care that you had your whole life in front of you and meditations Marcus. Aurelius quotes a long-lost fragment from Europe Edie's, why should you be angry at the world? He says, as if the world would notice, the world doesn't care, that it broke your heart. The world doesn't care that you really, really needed something fate and Fortune are indifferent.
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Objective merciless. They just keep marching on, we can get upset about this. We can take it personally, but why that doesn't change anything except to make us extra unhappy? On top, all we can do is accept what they are. All we can do is accept what is and what it represents all we can do is fight to protect ourselves in the people. We care about all we can do is continue to hold
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ourselves to the standards. We believe in. All we can do is live while we can.
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Hey, it's Ryan.
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Thank you for listening to the dailies dog podcast. I just wanted to say we so appreciate it. We love serving you. It's amazing to us that over 30 million. People have downloaded these episodes in the couple years we've been doing it. It's an honor, please spread the
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