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Anything Can Be An Advantage
Focusing on the Daily Stoic Meditation for August 16 — Anything Can Be An Advantage, as outlined by Ryan Holiday in the bestseller 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance and the Art Of Living.
“Just as the nature of rational things has given to each person their rational powers, so it also gives us this power — just as nature turns to its own purpose any obstacle or any opposition, sets its place in the destined order, and co-opts it, so every rational person can convert any obstacle into the raw material for their own purpose.”
— MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 8.35
Find the advantage
Take a look at your life right now and analyse the things that seem to be holding you back;
- Perhaps you don’t have access to a gym, and so you think you can’t work out.
- Perhaps you’re not as tall as other people, so playing a professional sport such as basketball would be a pretty difficult thing.
- Perhaps you don’t have access to a good university or school, and so you think you don’t have the opportunity to learn.
When it comes to the things that seem to be obstacles in your life, it’d be easy enough to just say that they’re obstacles and leave it at…
