The stoics believed playing ball was the most important skill a person could have. Epictetus wrote quite beautifully about his admir on for skilled athletes who were about to catch a ball that was thrown to them and whip it right back. Life is going to throw curve balls at us, are we going to take this personally? Or will we figure out how to hit it, catch it, or in other cases, expertly duck? Each of us has to learn how to play ball. How to play ball literal so we can stay in shape. Play ball with adversity. We have to do it because our kids depend on it. Our future and happiness depends on it. Hey thank you