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We Can Work Any Way
Focusing on the Daily Stoic Meditation for August 2 — We Can Work Any Way, as outlined by Ryan Holiday in the bestseller 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance and the Art Of Living.
“Indeed, how could exile be an obstacle to a person’s own cultivation, or to attaining virtue when no one has ever been cut off from learning or practicing what is needed by exile?”
— MUSONIUS RUFUS, LECTURES, 9.37.30–31, 9.39.1
Obstacles aren’t really obstacles…
Obstacles are only momentary obstacles, and so in that sense, they’re not really obstacles.
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When something goes wrong, or something unexpected occurs, it sucks; it forces you to change your plans, it pushes you out of your comfort zone, and sometimes it ruins things entirely. You can’t live a life without these obstacles.
The thing is, however, is that the obstacles only cause momentary barriers; there’s always a way around them. They’re not obstacles for long if you find a suitable way to deal with them!
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Moreover, many obstacles don’t stop you from learning and working.
Being forced to change environments, such as being exiled in the quote above, or any…
