Nothing stays the way you want it. Your job disappears. Relationships end. Everyone you know will die. The cities you live in will cease to exist. Michael and Caleb explore three Stoic strategies for accepting what you can’t control.

(03:20) The Word “Nostalgia”

(04:10) Strategy 1: Nothing Belongs to You

(12:20) Strategy 2: Expand Your Time Horizon(19:20) Thinking in Life Stages

(25:20) Strategy 3: Finding Agency in Change

(29:30) Combining the Whole and the Part

(35:30) Athletes Who Can’t Let Go

(39:50) Just Do What Nature Demands Now

(43:30) Summary and Synthesis

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Reporting from on the ground in Kyiv