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No, It’s Good This Happened to You
No, It’s Good This Happened to You

No, It’s Good This Happened to You

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Ryan Holiday
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Aug 31, 2020
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Welcome to the Daily stoic or each day. We read a short passage designed to help you cultivate the strength Insight wisdom necessary for living good life each. One of these passages is based on the 2000 year old philosophy that is guided some of History's Greatest men and women form or you can visit us daily stoic.com
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No, it's good. This happened to you the
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divorce the bankruptcy the car accident the night you're having to spend at the airport. It's not fun. It's not fair. Why couldn't it have happened to someone else when Stuart Scott found out he had cancer when he knew that he would almost certainly die. You can imagine he thought all those things. How could he not yet? It was with profound Grace that he refused to let that attitude take hold when a friend asked if he ever thought why me he
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Had I have two girls that I love. I have a wonderful job that I love getting up for every day. Why not me? I'm about do when another friend said they wished they could take some of his cancer and suffer it instead of him. He said I wouldn't let you do it. I got this. That's what a stoic does Cato didn't complain that the fight of the Roman Republic fell on him. Not once in Epictetus is lectures. Do we see him?
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Bemoan, the first 30 years of his life stolen as they were by slavery nor do we see Marcus Aurelius who had no desire to be Emperor who was beset by tragedy after tragedy in his life. Try to shirk his burdens onto anyone else on the contrary. It's unfortunate that this has happened. He wrote. No, it's fortunate that this has happened and I've remained unharmed by it not Shattered by the present or frightened the future. It could have happened to anyone but not everyone could have remained unharmed.
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I'd buy it which is exactly what we have to say. No matter how minor or major the difficulties that befall us. Why not me. I'm about due. No, I won't let someone else take my
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place. I've got it.
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