It Ain’t The Whole World

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• 0:05Ryan Holiday?

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• 0:56Ryan Holiday?

  It ain't the whole world. It can be easy to forget it in the depths of winter or the doldrums of summer or in the middle of an interminable divorce or the brutal bear market. You know, when it feels like forever, when it feels like things will never change. You just lose track. You get confused. You start to give up. "January ain't the whole world," Bon Iver sings in the song "Short Story." He's saying that winter doesn't last forever. No season does. And it's also worth pointing out that January isn't winter for the whole world either. But again, this is easy to forget when the news is dark or everything is going poorly at work. You can start to think it will always be this way

• 1:41Ryan Holiday?

  or that it is this way for everyone or that it's going to get worse. "Your child is sick," Marcus Aurelius reminds himself in Meditations. "Leave it there," he says. "You don't have to tell yourself that they might die from it." Extrapolation, we have to understand, is the enemy. January is January. A slump is a slump. They're not fun, but neither are they the whole world or forever. "Remember that this moment is not your life," goes one of the most quoted lines in "The Obstacle is the Way." It is just a moment in your life.