It’s Not Over Until It’s Over

"We have fought very hard, together, in an unprecedented display of global and national courage, justice, discipline and wisdom. How many people have been saved from COVID-19? Too many to count. It wasn’t easy. It wasn’t handled perfectly. We didn’t do everything we could have, but we did a lot. You did a lot. But before you congratulate yourself, you must remember what the Stoics said: that Fortune deceives us."Ryan discusses what we must do instead of letting our guard down 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 @DailyStoic:Twitter: https://twitter.com/ryanholidayInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/ryanholiday/Facebook: http://facebook.com/ryanholidayYouTube: 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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• 0:06Ryan Holiday?

  Welcome to The Daily Stoic, where each day we read a short passage designed to help you cultivate the strength, insight, wisdom necessary for living the good 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. "It's not over until it's over. We have fought very hard together in an unprecedented display of global and national courage, justice, discipline, and wisdom. How many people have been saved from COVID-19? Too many to count. It wasn't easy. It wasn't handled perfectly. We didn't do everything we could have, but we did a lot. You did

• 0:49Ryan Holiday?

  a lot. But before you congratulate yourself, you must remember what the Stoics said, that "fortune deceives us, that often just when we think the worst is past, we find we are not yet even halfway." Imagine Musonius Rufus after his first or second exile. "Oh, it's over," he must have thought. "It's all upside from here." In fact, at least two more exiles remained. Look to history, too. In John M. Berry's haunting book on the great influenza, he writes of the relief people felt when the Spanish flu seemed to be winding down. "They thought it was over. Actually, only the first wave was done. For the virus had not yet disappeared," he writes. "It had only gone underground like a forest fire

• 1:30Ryan Holiday?

  left burning in the roots, swarming and mutating, adapting, honing itself, watching and waiting, waiting to burst into flame." You cannot relax yet. You cannot drop your shield, as the Spartans would say. You must continue to protect the line, to act with courage and justice and discipline and wisdom. We are depending on it. If you like the podcast that we do here and you want to get it via email every morning, you can sign up at dailystoic.com/email.