EPISODE · Sep 12, 2023 · 6 MIN
How To Use Bad Luck Without Pretending It Is Good
from The Stoic Handbook with Jon Brooks · host Jon Brooks
A bad weather forecast, a worrying noise from the car, a small omen that something is about to go wrong. These little signals can sour a whole day if you let them. This episode is about a Stoic move for handling them: treating apparent bad luck as raw material rather than a verdict.I lean on the dichotomy of control to separate what the situation actually demands from the story you are spinning about it, and on reframing to turn a setback into something you can use. I am not claiming everything bad is secretly good. I am saying there is almost always a way to make the response to it good, and that is the part you control.Free 7-Day Stoic Challenge: stoicchallenge.coThe Stoic Vault: stoicvault.com
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A bad weather forecast, a worrying noise from the car, a small omen that something is about to go wrong. These little signals can sour a whole day if you let them. This episode is about a Stoic move for handling them: treating apparent bad luck as raw material rather than a verdict. I lean on the dichotomy of control to separate what the situation actually demands from the story you are spinning about it, and on reframing to turn a setback into something you can use. I am not claiming everyth...
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