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You live in a time of relative peace. Your basic living standards are the greatest in human history, and expected lifespan is among the longest. So it is easy to get spoiled. It's also easy to assume that you're spoiled and soft, especially compared to the ancient Greeks and Romans or even our own ancestors. Think of how tough our predecessors were. The great David McCullough writes in his short
book, History Matters, which you should definitely read in the pain of the porch. I loved it. He said, think of what they had been through. There's no one who hasn't in ancestry who went through some kind of hell. They all did. But you know what? Your ancestors also lived in what was
then a relatively advanced time. It was the most advanced time in human history up until that point. Marcus, I really said conveniences that Zeno didn't, just as your ancestors 80 years ago, had things that even an ancient king did not. And when things went sideways, you know what they did? They handled it as we would handle it. Churchill, in his great speech in the darkest hours of the
Second World War, McCullough pointed out, reminded us that we haven't journeyed this far because we are made of sugar candy. You come from that tradition. You are made of the same stock as the Stoics. You are literally from the stock of people who lived through wars and depressions and famines and floods. You yourself, it should be pointed out, have been through some stuff pandemics and panics, political unrest and personal issues. You are not made of sugar candy. You can handle this.