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You just have to accept it
when the pandemic hit as with all sudden or unexpected, life events, people responded in Myriad different ways. Some people denied it. Some people hoped to be Exempted from it, some people cowered in fear of it, and as you likely saw among your own peer group, none of these responses were particularly effective when I talked to Jocko willing and the daily stowed podcast towards the beginning of the pandemic.
He explained that there was one type of person among his client base of businesses, and nonprofits, and military leaders, who had managed to thrive during these unusual times. He said they were the ones who accepted the reality of the situation immediately unflinchingly. They didn't deny that didn't run, they didn't expect magical thinking to rescue them. No, they got to work. You have to remember the imperative of the Stockdale paradox.
It influenced as it was by Epictetus. You accept with complete honesty, The Perils of the obstacle in front of you. But you remain convinced that if it is possible to survive, not only will you, but you will also turn this into the best thing that ever happened to you. It's essential that we do not mistake this realism this fatalism for passivity because it's not. However, there is no progress without first accepting the particulars of the circumstances. You find yourself in
Lying denying pretending hoping that something anything will save you. Besides yourself is a Fool's errand. You must face it. You have to see the reality and then
most importantly you must get to work. That's how you turn the obstacle into the way. That's why I have it
tattooed on my arm. The obstacle is the way. That's what my first book. Had stoicism is
about, and the leather-bound edition of the obstacle is the way is now on sale. It's a limited first edition, run.
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