The Highway Don’t Care

“It doesn’t matter that you’re a safe driver. Or that you’ve always paid your taxes. It doesn’t matter how hard you’ve worked for this. Or that you volunteer with poor blind kids after school.”Ryan discusses the odds that we are all up against and how indifferent they are to our lives, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.***If you enjoyed this week’s podcast, we’d love for you to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps with our visibility, and the more people listen to the podcast, the more we can invest into it and make it even better. Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/signupFollow Daily Stoic:Twitter: https://twitter.com/dailystoicInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic/Facebook: http://facebook.com/dailystoicYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/dailystoicSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. 📢 Share | ⚙️ Manage Subscription

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• 0:04Ryan 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 at DailyStoic.com.

• 0:27Speaker 01

  The highway, don't care. It doesn't matter that you're a safe driver, that you've always paid your taxes. It doesn't matter how hard you've worked for this, or that you volunteer with poor, blind kids after school. The highway doesn't care. It doesn't care about the tractor-trailer whose driver fell asleep either. It doesn't care about the slippery roads. It doesn't care that you paid for OnStar. It doesn't care that you're a famous comedian. It doesn't care about you at all. "The road is unmerciful. So is the war that can easily break out. So is the con man and the criminal. So are the pandemics and the building collapses. Always take full note of Fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases," Seneca reminds us. "Don't trust prosperity," he said.

• 1:10Speaker 01

  "Don't think it can't happen to you, because it can." Remember, even the averages that come down in your favor, the odds against lung cancer if you don't smoke, the odds of a plane crash, the odds of the flash drive reformatting if you don't unplug it properly, are still ruthless to the individual. It happens to somebody. Somebody always takes the weight. And that somebody could be you. And it could be today. So live accordingly.

• 1:39Ryan Holiday?

  Hey, it's Ryan. Thanks so much for listening to the Daily Stoic Podcast. Again, if you don't know this, you can get these delivered to you via email every day. You just go to DailyStoic.com/email. And of course, we'd love to deliver the Daily Stoic Meditation to you via email every day. So check it out, DailyStoic.com/email.