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Each one of these passages is based on the 2000 year old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more you can visit us at DailyStoic.com.

You just have to accept it.

When the pandemic hit as with all sudden or unexpected life events, people responded in myriad different ways. Some people denied it. Some people hoped to be exempted from it. Some people coward in fear of it.

And as you likely saw among your own peer group, none of these responses were particularly effective.

When I talked to Jocco Willink on the Daily Stoic podcast towards the beginning of the pandemic, he explained that there was one type of person among his client base of businesses and nonprofits and military leaders who had managed to thrive during these unusual times.

He said they were the ones who accepted the reality of the situation immediately, unflinchingly. They didn't deny, they didn't run, they didn't expect magical thinking to rescue them. No, they got to work.

You have to remember the imperative of the Stockdale Paradox, influenced as it was by Epictetus.

You accept with complete honesty the perils of the obstacle in front of you, but you remain convinced that if it is possible to survive, not only will you, but you will also turn this into the best thing that ever happened to you.

It's essential that we do not mistake this realism, this fatalism for passivity, because it's not.

However, there is no progress without first accepting the particulars of the circumstances you find yourself in, lying, denying, pretending, hoping that something anything will save you, besides yourself is a fool's errand.

You must face it, you have to see the reality, and then, most importantly, you must get to work.

That's how you turn the obstacle into the way. That's why I have it tattooed on my arm. The obstacle is the way, that's what my first book of the soicism is about.

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