Surrender But Don’t Give Yourself Away

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2:33Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom in everyday life. Each one of these passages is based on the 2 ,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at DailyStoic.com. surrender, but don't give yourself away. The fact of life is that we're going to get tossed around by forces outside of our control. Never forget fortune's habit of behaving exactly as she pleases, Seneca reminds us. Never forget that adversity is an inevitability.

3:10There would be war, he said, torture and shipwrecks and exile, along with a lot of less dramatic stuff like traffic jams and divorces and food poisoning and annoying neighbors and bad weather and pets that run away. The only option, according to the Stoics, was to submit. No amount of wishing otherwise, no amount of anxiety, no amount of power or wealth would fully protect us from this. We had to surrender to the fates. We had to surrender to the fates to let them guide us. But perhaps we could add to this idea a little corollary from Cheap Trick. Surrender, but don't give yourself away. Stockdale obviously had to surrender as a POW.

3:45He had to accept his powerlessness. He had the objective reality of his fate in captivity. And yet he kept the most important part of himself to himself, within himself. Marcus Aurelius accepted the job of the emperor, which he did not seek out, but there was a part of himself, the part we read in the pages of meditations, that he did not allow his professional identity to consume. We all have to surrender and accept and accede to the events that life throws at us. There will be moments when we have to give up, when we have to admit defeat. But like Stockdale, like Marcus, like a Stoke, we don't have to give ourselves away in the process.

4:18Nothing can make us depart from our virtues and values but ourselves. No one and nothing has any say over our character. That's always ours unless we surrender it.

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