 What's up guys? I'm going to talk about a quote today that I feel kind of like embodies the essence or Ethos of Stoicism. A quote that I think if you understand you Understand how to be a story quite well inspired Epictetus. Now basically Epictetus said Difficulty shows what man are Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you remember that God like a trainer of wrestlers has matched you with a rough young man Why so that you may become an Olympic conqueror, but it is not accomplished without sweat So basically in the same way that In order to be a good wrestler you need to have lots of training put in 10,000 hours of training I guess other competitors in order to be a good musician you need to practice your Craft for hours a day over the years. You know in order to be good at anything you need practice In order to be good at living life Oh, let's be good dealing with the vicissitudes of life You need to be able to face adversity a lot of people want to live in this fairy tale Picture of life where nothing bad happens where they perhaps accomplish something to get the job They want to get the house they want or they move somewhere They get the fitness of they want and they think that everything is gonna be all good In reality life is not like that the nature of life is change things always change, right? You have periods where things are good, but you also have periods where things are going to be bad This is life itself. You can't go against this trying to ignore this fact is just ignorance So the stoic person faces the risk reality They understand that things are not always gonna go their way things are going to Happen that they don't want to happen people are going to pass away people going to die People going to be sick. You're going to be sick friends are going to betray you You're going to lose your job all kinds of things negative things are going to happen but the difference between the stoic and The average person with the average mindset is that the person who follows stoicism Sees these opportunities as a way to build themselves up They see this opportunity as a way to test themselves to they see these Struggles as the Olympic wrestlers have been put in front of them for them to get stronger and to Be able to deal with these situations in a more stoic way in the future I'll give you an example the other day. I had to take my mother to the hospital, right? She had to get this check up and as soon as I got in this news. I knew that I would be waiting at the hospital for a couple of hours Previously when I was younger when waiting at the hospital. I used to You know complain Get tired be sick be over it and just really hate myself and hate life at that moment while I'm waiting But now that I've developed a stoic mindset I was there for around six hours and it didn't bother me at all because I saw it as a test I saw this as a test of my patience. It's a negative aspect of life, but I didn't resist it I accepted it and saw how I could make that work for me So that's what I feel like store systems all about see how you can turn the situation upside down and make it work for you See the situation as a training obstacle. It's going to make you strong. It's gonna make you better. I Love people suffer with the pain of rejection, right? They suffer the pain of rejection and it mobilizes them They don't want to go out anymore. They don't want to pursue their goals anymore No, no, no use it use it as a way to make yourself better. How can you get better from this rejection? How can you rebound? How can you attract someone better? This is this is true practical stoicism It's kind of like what Napoleon Hill says, right? He says that Every failure that in every failure is a seed of equal opportunity, right? Something along those lines There's always something to gain from the negative aspects of life It's awesome negative regardless of how bad you think it is. There's always something negative to gain I remember there was a story about this guy who I think he got his arm stuck on his boulder, right? and he was trapped so he had to chop off his arm and In order to escape so most people's conceptions This is a terrible terrible thing. I happen to have to chop off your own arm is Probably one of the worst things that could happen to you But what ended up happening was that he now had a story. He wrote the story He did a lot of public speaking. He got his book out there and made millions of dollars based off this event So the quality of his life has probably gone up even though he's lost his arm But at the time of losing his arm, he did not see that so see everything as having the chance to actually Get better in the future and see it as a test for you in the game of life So that's one of my favorite quotes from stoicism I'm gonna do some more of these videos in the future where I go over a quote and kind of dissect it But I hope you guys enjoyed that. Let me see you soon. Peace