You're On Your Own, Kid

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• 0:03Ryan Holiday?

  Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom in everyday life. Each one of these passages is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us, dailystoic.com.

• 0:30Ryan Holiday?

  You're on your own, kid. There are moments when we feel more alone, of course, after the divorce, when we head off to school for the first time, when we strike out on our own, start working for ourselves, when we do something that people don't understand that engenders criticism. We realize we're on our own, that we have to blow our own nose, as Epictetus said, that we'll have to be our own savior while we can, as Marcus Aurelius wrote. No one but us can solve our problems. No one but us can manage our emotions. We only control what we control. We can only demand the best from ourselves. But this is not new. You have always been on your own, as Taylor Swift put it, and you always will be. You can instead let these moments when we feel more alone serve as reminders that we have the tools to change,

• 1:14Ryan Holiday?

  that we only get to choose how we react, that we evolve into whomever we want to be. Because what do you have to lose? You are already on your own, kid, and no one can take you away from you. Only you can do that.