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Speaker 1: Yes, Yes, I and dramas and this is the Street

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Speaker 1: Stoic Podcast, bringing you your daily dose of timeless stoke

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Speaker 1: philosophy remixed for the hip hop generation. Now, with that

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Speaker 1: in mind, let's get things started with your daily shot

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Speaker 1: of inspiration. Now today we are going to be focusing

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Speaker 1: around the stoic idea of practicing resilience when faced with obstacles, failure,

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Speaker 1: or tragedy. And a lyric that immediately came to my

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Speaker 1: mind when I was thinking about this. You know, one

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Speaker 1: of my favorite artists of that era, fifty cent and

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Speaker 1: in the song many Men, and he says, sunny days

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Speaker 1: wouldn't be so special if it wasn't for rain. Joy

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Speaker 1: wouldn't feel so good if it wasn't for pain. And

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Speaker 1: and if he's talking about, you know, shifting his perspective

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Speaker 1: in order to handle adversity in a healthier way, right,

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Speaker 1: Like he's accepting the fact that there is no good

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Speaker 1: without the bad. Right you think about it like it's

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Speaker 1: it's why you have the the yin and the yang, right,

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Speaker 1: good and evil God and the devil like a polar

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Speaker 1: opposite always has to exist in this world, you know,

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Speaker 1: And especially when you talk about the idea of being

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Speaker 1: able to appreciate the good. Like if we're all being

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Speaker 1: being real, you know, we already find it incredibly difficult

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Speaker 1: to stay present. And it's way too easy as human

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Speaker 1: beings to take things for granted, right, So can you

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Speaker 1: imagine if everything was just good, it would be an

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Speaker 1: incredibly bland and mundane life. We just have to learn

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Speaker 1: to accept and embrace the hard times and the disappointments

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Speaker 1: as as you know, normal parts of our existence as

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Speaker 1: human beings. And I feel like the following quote is

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Speaker 1: sort of like the action to this observation by fitth you. Right,

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Speaker 1: Seneca says, to bear trials with a calm mind, rob's

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Speaker 1: misfortune of its strength and burden. Now, this is kind

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Speaker 1: of like a blueprint on how to deal with adversity

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Speaker 1: and how to not allow it to overcome you, you know,

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Speaker 1: and it how to relinquish its power over you. You know.

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Speaker 1: Oftentimes our reaction to certain situations, that's what makes you know,

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Speaker 1: a difficult situation truly difficult, Right, Like if we were

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Speaker 1: calm and just sort of like, you know, there, accepting

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Speaker 1: whatever's in front of us, you know, and staying calm

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Speaker 1: in the face of adversity, and instead decided that we're

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Speaker 1: going to move into a mindset of being proactive or positive,

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Speaker 1: you know, that difficult moment, it wouldn't really be all

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Speaker 1: that bad. And listen, of course, there are situations, right,

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Speaker 1: like situations like the the death of a loved one

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Speaker 1: that can be incredibly difficult. But even in that, you know,

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Speaker 1: we see people adapting the idea of celebrating one's life

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Speaker 1: right rather than mourning them. And of course it doesn't

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Speaker 1: take away all of the pain, but it's a far

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Speaker 1: healthier way of facing what is, you know, inevitably a

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Speaker 1: terrible situation, right And I think for me, in sort

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Speaker 1: of just reading the stuff and internalizing it, I think

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Speaker 1: about something that I'm going through right now, and I

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Speaker 1: can't be incredibly specific on it because it has been

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Speaker 1: made public or completely confirmed, but you know, I'm in

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Speaker 1: a situation where it looks like I'm no longer going

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Speaker 1: to be working on a particular project that I've been

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Speaker 1: doing for a while. I won't have that check to

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Speaker 1: count on anymore. And of course, initially, you know, I

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Speaker 1: went into panic mode thinking about, man, how am I

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Speaker 1: going to supplement this income? And then on a personal level,

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Speaker 1: like thinking to myself, why don't these people find value

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Speaker 1: in me anymore? Right that those self deprecating thoughts. But

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Speaker 1: to be fairer, and to my credit, I quickly checked myself, right,

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Speaker 1: Like I took a deep breath, and I reminded myself

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Speaker 1: that I've always been able to figure it out, right,

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Speaker 1: I've always been able to find a way to make

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Speaker 1: it through the hard time. So this is just another

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Speaker 1: inevitable part of my story. And eventually another opportunity will

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Speaker 1: present itself, right, just like it always has. A storm

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Speaker 1: will always pass, you know, And in the meantime, I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna make the most of this, you know, this moment, right,

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Speaker 1: I'm going to take those extra two hours a week

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Speaker 1: that I have and do something great with them. Right.

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Speaker 1: And in doing this, in adapting this mindset, I took

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Speaker 1: the power of this negative moment away. I reminded myself

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Speaker 1: that this is just a normal part of life. And

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Speaker 1: it also caused me to kind of stop and appreciate

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Speaker 1: the time that I had on this project, right, to

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Speaker 1: have gratitude for the fact that I even had the

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Speaker 1: journey that it was, and to really, you know, just

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Speaker 1: sit there and appreciate the beauty of life. Even with

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Speaker 1: has contributed in such a positive way, Right, there's beauty

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Speaker 1: in that. And with that, I quickly got over it

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Speaker 1: for a couple of weeks and then been incredibly unproductive

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Speaker 1: on other aspects of my life. And of course, like

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Speaker 1: thing that you can do, right, That is the complete

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Speaker 1: opposite of the mindset that you you should be adapting, right,

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Speaker 1: because again, it isn't the end of the world. When

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Speaker 1: when something bad happens, when something unexpected happens, when and

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Speaker 1: opportunities is taken away, Again, it's not the end of

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Speaker 1: the world. So you shouldn't stop living at that point.

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Speaker 1: You have just have to accept it as an inevitable

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Speaker 1: part of life. And I'm proud to say that that's

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Speaker 1: what I've been able to adapt in this particular situation.

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Speaker 1: And I can tell you that it hasn't really phased me.

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Speaker 1: And life is still good, and I'm really happy that

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Speaker 1: I've been able to adapt that mindset. It's been incredibly powerful.

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Speaker 1: Now with that said, you know, we have heard the

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Speaker 1: words of fifty cent, we have heard the words of Seneca.

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Speaker 1: I've kind of given you insight into certain things that

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Speaker 1: I'm working through right now as we speak. Now let's

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Speaker 1: talk about you, you know, and how you can make

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Speaker 1: this your mantra for today. But first let's take a

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Speaker 1: quick break and then we'll be right back. All right,

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Speaker 1: So we have heard the words of fifty cent Seneca myself,

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Speaker 1: all in relation to this stoic idea of practicing resilience

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Speaker 1: when faced with obstacles, failure, or tragedy. Right now, let's

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Speaker 1: talk about how you can make it your mantra for today. Now,

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Speaker 1: of course this is easier said than done, but it

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Speaker 1: truly is all about acceptance, right not looking at adversity

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Speaker 1: you have the worst luck in the world. It doesn't

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Speaker 1: mean anything about you personally. You have to realize that

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Speaker 1: this is just life, and sure they're going to be

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Speaker 1: times where it feels like bad things are happening to

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Speaker 1: you more than others, but there's no way of actually

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Speaker 1: knowing that, right, like, we don't know what others deal

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Speaker 1: through mentally. So even wasting a second of time trying

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Speaker 1: to play this sort of comparison game and seeing who

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Speaker 1: wins the Trauma Olympics, you know, it's a waste of

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Speaker 1: your precious time here on this earth. And again remembering

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Speaker 1: that the yin and the yang are necessary, right, This

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Speaker 1: is why every hero has a villain, you know. The

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Speaker 1: juxtaposition is necessary to give us the perspective of right

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Speaker 1: and wrong, good and bad, the ability to appreciate the

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Speaker 1: good and recognize it as something truly positive. Right, All

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Speaker 1: of that works in conjunction with each other. We need

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Speaker 1: to see what the bad is in order to appreciate

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Speaker 1: the good, So we have to stop trying to fight

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Speaker 1: the natural order of life and instead work with it. Right,

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Speaker 1: except every part of it, even when you know it's

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Speaker 1: not ideal. This is what it truly means to be alive,

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Speaker 1: you know. This is the human experience, going with the

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Speaker 1: flow of life, good or bad, and accepting it for

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Speaker 1: what it is as just a moment in time now

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Speaker 1: to recap fifty is talking about the idea of shifting

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Speaker 1: his perspective to recognize that the pain of life also

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Speaker 1: allows you to appreciate the joy of life. Right and Seneca,

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Speaker 1: you know it talks about bearing the trials of life

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Speaker 1: with a calm mind. You take away the strength and

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Speaker 1: the power that they have over you, you know. And

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Speaker 1: even for me in my story, training myself to look

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Speaker 1: for the opportunity that is there right, no longer doing

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Speaker 1: this project gives me more free time, right, And then

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Speaker 1: also finding the gratitude in it. I'm grateful that I

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Speaker 1: even got to do it in the first place. And

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Speaker 1: then also having that faith knowing that i have made

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Speaker 1: it through tough times and I've always found a way

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Speaker 1: to bounce back. And if you are listening to this,

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Speaker 1: you two have made it through tough times. You've always

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Speaker 1: found a way to bounce back, and somehow, some way

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Speaker 1: it will work itself out. That is life. Just like

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Speaker 1: it can't stay good all the time, it also cannot

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Speaker 1: consistently be bad. There's always a juxtaposition in life, and

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Speaker 1: when you accept that, that is when you are truly living.

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Speaker 1: Now with that said, thank you so much for checking

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Speaker 1: out the Street Stoic podcast. Do your best to apply

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Speaker 1: these concepts that we've discussed today into your everyday life,

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Speaker 1: and I'll catch you next time. The Street Stove Podcast

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