1 00:00:16,800 --> 00:00:19,520 Speaker 1: Yes, Yes, I am dramost and this is the Street 2 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:22,599 Speaker 1: Stoke Podcast, bring you your daily dose of timeless stoke 3 00:00:22,640 --> 00:00:26,319 Speaker 1: philosophy remix for the hip hop generation. Now, with that 4 00:00:26,400 --> 00:00:29,040 Speaker 1: in mind, let's get things started with your daily shot 5 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:38,839 Speaker 1: of inspiration. Now today, when you're focusing all around the 6 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:43,639 Speaker 1: stoic idea of practicing resilience when faced with obstacles, failure 7 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:47,199 Speaker 1: and or tragedy. And a record that I felt like 8 00:00:47,479 --> 00:00:49,960 Speaker 1: kind of sum this up perfectly is by Big Sean, 9 00:00:50,080 --> 00:00:52,400 Speaker 1: and it's the song bounced Back, and in the hook, 10 00:00:52,479 --> 00:00:55,840 Speaker 1: he says, last night took an L, but tonight I 11 00:00:55,960 --> 00:00:59,400 Speaker 1: bounce back. Wake up every morning. By the night, I 12 00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:02,800 Speaker 1: count that last night took an L, but tonight I 13 00:01:02,840 --> 00:01:06,080 Speaker 1: bounced back. Boy, I've been broke as how, cast a 14 00:01:06,200 --> 00:01:10,760 Speaker 1: check and bounce back detown lax every week. I bounced back. 15 00:01:11,080 --> 00:01:14,039 Speaker 1: If you're a real one, then you know how to 16 00:01:14,240 --> 00:01:20,920 Speaker 1: bounce back. And I love everything he's saying in this hook, 17 00:01:21,000 --> 00:01:27,479 Speaker 1: right he's talking very obviously about wins and losses and 18 00:01:27,600 --> 00:01:29,679 Speaker 1: not allowing them to sort of define him. And I 19 00:01:29,720 --> 00:01:32,759 Speaker 1: think that last line especially, I really love when he says, 20 00:01:32,840 --> 00:01:34,520 Speaker 1: if you're a real one, then you know how to 21 00:01:34,560 --> 00:01:37,800 Speaker 1: bounce back. And I think that kind of sums it 22 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:39,160 Speaker 1: up at the end of the day. This is the 23 00:01:39,160 --> 00:01:42,720 Speaker 1: difference between anybody who finds success in any sort of 24 00:01:42,720 --> 00:01:44,920 Speaker 1: way in their life, right, This is the difference between 25 00:01:44,959 --> 00:01:49,520 Speaker 1: them and those who sort of are living in regret. 26 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:53,160 Speaker 1: The people who have found success, the people who are happy. 27 00:01:53,520 --> 00:01:56,960 Speaker 1: They just kept bouncing back no matter how hard the 28 00:01:57,040 --> 00:02:00,280 Speaker 1: loss was, no matter how large the obstacle. Ever, every 29 00:02:00,320 --> 00:02:04,120 Speaker 1: single time, they just kept finding a way to bounce back. 30 00:02:04,400 --> 00:02:07,000 Speaker 1: And this leads perfectly into a quote from one of 31 00:02:07,040 --> 00:02:10,280 Speaker 1: the Stokes Epictetus, where he says, the greater the difficulty, 32 00:02:10,720 --> 00:02:14,600 Speaker 1: the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gained the 33 00:02:14,720 --> 00:02:20,239 Speaker 1: reputation from storms and tempests. I particularly love this quote 34 00:02:20,280 --> 00:02:22,639 Speaker 1: because it allows us to kind of put perspective into 35 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:25,720 Speaker 1: some of the more difficult moments in our lives, right, 36 00:02:26,080 --> 00:02:32,000 Speaker 1: talking about how skillful pilots essentially gain their notoriety or 37 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:36,120 Speaker 1: even just their their ability, their their success from the 38 00:02:36,360 --> 00:02:39,200 Speaker 1: scary storms that they may have faced while while you know, 39 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:42,320 Speaker 1: flying or whatever. It is. Right, and I think the 40 00:02:42,520 --> 00:02:45,480 Speaker 1: idea as well that the greater the difficulty, the more 41 00:02:45,520 --> 00:02:48,480 Speaker 1: glory in surmounting it. You know, I think if you 42 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:52,000 Speaker 1: are not scared of the obstacles, if the obstacles seem 43 00:02:52,080 --> 00:02:54,639 Speaker 1: too easy, you're probably not dreaming large enough at the 44 00:02:54,720 --> 00:02:58,280 Speaker 1: end of the day, right, And I think, again, pain 45 00:02:58,400 --> 00:03:01,560 Speaker 1: is pain. Hard time are hard times. They're always going 46 00:03:01,560 --> 00:03:05,280 Speaker 1: to suck, there's no way around that. Disappointment never feels good. 47 00:03:05,960 --> 00:03:09,160 Speaker 1: But I think, what the idea of these quotes and 48 00:03:09,200 --> 00:03:12,919 Speaker 1: instilling this mindset in your head, the sort of reasoning 49 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:16,639 Speaker 1: behind it, is so that you can see the light 50 00:03:16,680 --> 00:03:18,760 Speaker 1: at the end of the tunnel, right, And I think 51 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:20,600 Speaker 1: that's what we should be striving for. It's not to 52 00:03:20,639 --> 00:03:22,880 Speaker 1: live a life without pain, but it's to live a 53 00:03:22,919 --> 00:03:27,720 Speaker 1: life where we give pain its sort of proper compartment 54 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:30,640 Speaker 1: in our life. And I think something that kind of 55 00:03:30,680 --> 00:03:32,960 Speaker 1: came to mind as I was thinking about this episode was, 56 00:03:33,360 --> 00:03:36,360 Speaker 1: you know, I randomly it went to church with my 57 00:03:36,960 --> 00:03:39,600 Speaker 1: parents recently, and I've never been like a big church goer, 58 00:03:39,640 --> 00:03:43,920 Speaker 1: but the pastor was talking about sort of life and 59 00:03:43,960 --> 00:03:48,520 Speaker 1: its obstacles and its hardships, and it was really resonating 60 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:52,120 Speaker 1: with me because I look back on my journey and 61 00:03:52,360 --> 00:03:55,000 Speaker 1: it's been an incredibly difficult one and a long one, 62 00:03:55,080 --> 00:03:57,480 Speaker 1: you know, and many times where I've sort of felt 63 00:03:58,160 --> 00:04:01,760 Speaker 1: like life was personally coming at me, you know. And 64 00:04:02,520 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 1: I think the thing that resonated to me with me 65 00:04:04,720 --> 00:04:08,440 Speaker 1: about what he was talking about was remembering and sort 66 00:04:08,440 --> 00:04:12,160 Speaker 1: of reminding us that the pain and the obstacles, while 67 00:04:12,840 --> 00:04:16,800 Speaker 1: they're very real and they're very personal to each and 68 00:04:16,839 --> 00:04:20,279 Speaker 1: every one of us, the feeling of pain, the feeling 69 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:24,000 Speaker 1: of disappointment, the feeling of life getting you down, is 70 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:26,960 Speaker 1: very much universal for every single one of us. Right. 71 00:04:27,000 --> 00:04:30,040 Speaker 1: It's a part of the human condition. You're not alone 72 00:04:30,240 --> 00:04:33,640 Speaker 1: in that, right. And I think while you can't ever 73 00:04:33,920 --> 00:04:36,520 Speaker 1: escape the pain, and while it's always going to be there, 74 00:04:37,040 --> 00:04:40,880 Speaker 1: when you begin to remove the sort of personalization of it, 75 00:04:41,040 --> 00:04:43,479 Speaker 1: you know, and thinking that life is out to get 76 00:04:43,520 --> 00:04:46,480 Speaker 1: you and instead of recognize it as just an inevitable 77 00:04:46,520 --> 00:04:49,040 Speaker 1: part of the human condition, I think it makes it 78 00:04:49,120 --> 00:04:52,680 Speaker 1: far easier to then bounce back, for you know, lack 79 00:04:52,720 --> 00:04:55,360 Speaker 1: of a better terminology, right, it makes it far easier 80 00:04:55,360 --> 00:04:58,280 Speaker 1: to be resilient and to just understand this is a 81 00:04:58,279 --> 00:05:02,200 Speaker 1: part of the process and it's not anything deeper than that. 82 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:05,159 Speaker 1: And I think that's what we're talking about with the 83 00:05:05,200 --> 00:05:09,080 Speaker 1: idea of Big Sean talking about real ones know how 84 00:05:09,120 --> 00:05:11,600 Speaker 1: to bounce back. Right, They recognize that this is all 85 00:05:11,800 --> 00:05:16,240 Speaker 1: just a temporary thing along my very normal human existence 86 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:18,440 Speaker 1: of the ups and downs that we all go through. 87 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:21,960 Speaker 1: Right And at Pictitis, I love as well talking about 88 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:25,440 Speaker 1: skillful pilots gaining their reputations from these storms that they 89 00:05:25,440 --> 00:05:28,160 Speaker 1: go through. Essentially, right now, we have heard from Big 90 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:31,640 Speaker 1: Sean Atpictitis, one of the stoics myself. Now let's talk 91 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:34,280 Speaker 1: about how you can make it your mantra for today. 92 00:05:34,480 --> 00:05:36,480 Speaker 1: But first to take a quick break and then we'll 93 00:05:36,520 --> 00:05:49,840 Speaker 1: be all right. So today we've been talking all about 94 00:05:50,040 --> 00:05:54,080 Speaker 1: practicing resilience when faced with obstacles, failure or tragedy. Right, 95 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:57,479 Speaker 1: and we pulled from Big Sean in the record bounce 96 00:05:57,560 --> 00:06:00,480 Speaker 1: back you've heard from Epictitis. I've also talked to about 97 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:03,920 Speaker 1: how a message from a past or recently just kind 98 00:06:03,920 --> 00:06:08,000 Speaker 1: of cut through to me and allowed me a different perspective. Now, 99 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:09,839 Speaker 1: let's talk about how you can make it your mantra 100 00:06:09,920 --> 00:06:13,440 Speaker 1: for today. And I think that is the mantra, the 101 00:06:13,600 --> 00:06:16,960 Speaker 1: idea of this all just being a part of the 102 00:06:17,040 --> 00:06:22,599 Speaker 1: human condition. You can't take life personally, and I think again, 103 00:06:23,080 --> 00:06:26,000 Speaker 1: this isn't to diminish your pain. The pain is very real. 104 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:29,400 Speaker 1: All that you're feeling is very real. Right. But those feelings, 105 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:33,160 Speaker 1: those emotions, that pain, that let down, those you know, 106 00:06:33,440 --> 00:06:36,000 Speaker 1: the feeling that life is out to get you, all 107 00:06:36,040 --> 00:06:40,159 Speaker 1: of that is incredibly human. It's incredibly normal. It's a 108 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:43,919 Speaker 1: part of the human experience, the human condition, right. And 109 00:06:44,000 --> 00:06:48,520 Speaker 1: I think for me, there's comfort in that, Right. It's 110 00:06:48,640 --> 00:06:52,520 Speaker 1: knowing that I'm just living in accordance with what it 111 00:06:52,560 --> 00:06:54,800 Speaker 1: means to be a human being. Right, the same way 112 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:57,359 Speaker 1: that I have to be breathing, the same way that 113 00:06:57,400 --> 00:06:59,680 Speaker 1: I have to stop and eat, the same way that 114 00:06:59,680 --> 00:07:02,080 Speaker 1: I can be working twenty four hours a day, I 115 00:07:02,120 --> 00:07:04,920 Speaker 1: have to stop and rest. Right, these are all aspects 116 00:07:04,960 --> 00:07:08,040 Speaker 1: of being human and in the same way that we 117 00:07:08,400 --> 00:07:12,000 Speaker 1: accept all of those things, even if they're inconvenient, right, 118 00:07:12,040 --> 00:07:14,240 Speaker 1: And we all share in that. And I think when 119 00:07:14,240 --> 00:07:17,760 Speaker 1: we can view pain as just another part of that process, 120 00:07:18,160 --> 00:07:20,920 Speaker 1: then we can allow ourselves to sort of move through 121 00:07:20,920 --> 00:07:23,920 Speaker 1: it with acceptance. And you're always going to view the 122 00:07:24,040 --> 00:07:25,760 Speaker 1: light at the end of the tunnel, no matter how 123 00:07:25,840 --> 00:07:28,240 Speaker 1: dark it might be in the moment, right, And I 124 00:07:28,240 --> 00:07:29,880 Speaker 1: think that's all that we can hope for at the 125 00:07:29,960 --> 00:07:31,760 Speaker 1: end of the day. And a recap all we've been 126 00:07:31,800 --> 00:07:35,480 Speaker 1: talking about today. I love this quote from Big Sean 127 00:07:35,560 --> 00:07:38,600 Speaker 1: this hook, but I think particularly the one of saying, 128 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:40,400 Speaker 1: if you're a real one, then you know how to 129 00:07:40,440 --> 00:07:44,080 Speaker 1: bounce back, right, And to Epictetus really kind of talking 130 00:07:44,120 --> 00:07:48,320 Speaker 1: about the idea of pilots gaining their reputation from the 131 00:07:48,360 --> 00:07:51,280 Speaker 1: storms that they travel through, right. And also I think 132 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:54,760 Speaker 1: the sort of extra tidbit on that is the greater difficulty, 133 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:58,280 Speaker 1: the more glory and surmounting it. I love this idea 134 00:07:58,520 --> 00:08:03,600 Speaker 1: of sort of viewing pain or difficulty or obstacles that 135 00:08:03,960 --> 00:08:07,040 Speaker 1: are really challenging you again being able to always have 136 00:08:07,120 --> 00:08:10,000 Speaker 1: that light in knowing that if this is feeling really difficult, 137 00:08:10,000 --> 00:08:13,280 Speaker 1: then I must be challenging myself to doing something really big, right. 138 00:08:13,640 --> 00:08:15,720 Speaker 1: And I think even for me kind of in this 139 00:08:16,200 --> 00:08:19,280 Speaker 1: message that I got from from a pastor of just 140 00:08:19,400 --> 00:08:24,480 Speaker 1: realizing pain is just another part of the human experience, 141 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:28,000 Speaker 1: nothing more, nothing less. It's not a personal attack on us. 142 00:08:28,080 --> 00:08:31,600 Speaker 1: It is literally just another part of our experience here 143 00:08:31,800 --> 00:08:34,840 Speaker 1: on this planet Earth, and we can't give it extra 144 00:08:34,920 --> 00:08:38,080 Speaker 1: meaning or allow it to slow us down, because again, 145 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:42,440 Speaker 1: it's just this inevitable part of our daily and regular existence. Right, 146 00:08:42,800 --> 00:08:45,280 Speaker 1: So you always have to sort of just keep that 147 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:49,959 Speaker 1: in mind, understand that you are just experiencing in the 148 00:08:50,440 --> 00:08:52,400 Speaker 1: same things that all of us go through in just 149 00:08:52,440 --> 00:08:54,400 Speaker 1: different ways, and you're always going to be able to 150 00:08:54,440 --> 00:08:56,800 Speaker 1: find a way to bounce back if you look for 151 00:08:56,880 --> 00:08:58,680 Speaker 1: it right. And I think that's the key to all 152 00:08:58,720 --> 00:09:01,000 Speaker 1: we've been talking about today. Now, with that said, thank 153 00:09:01,080 --> 00:09:03,360 Speaker 1: you so much for checking out the Street Stoke Podcast. 154 00:09:03,640 --> 00:09:05,920 Speaker 1: Do your best to apply these concepts we discussed into 155 00:09:05,920 --> 00:09:08,040 Speaker 1: your everyday life and that would catch you next time. 156 00:09:16,040 --> 00:09:19,640 Speaker 1: The Street Stoke Podcast is a production of Iheart's Micolura 157 00:09:19,840 --> 00:09:20,880 Speaker 1: podcast network.