Now you are a philosopher and a person of action. And that is not a contradiction.

Philosophy was never what happened in the classroom. It was a set of lessons from the battlefield of life.

doers—like you.

The essence of philosophy is action—

See things for what they are. Do what we can. Endure and bear what we must. What blocked the path now is a path. What once impeded action advances action. The Obstacle is the Way.

(simple, not easy).

We are worthy of any and every challenge.

The philosopher and writer Nassim Nicholas Taleb defined a Stoic as someone who “transforms fear into prudence, pain into transformation, mistakes into initiation and desire into undertaking.” It’s a loop that becomes easier over time.

Fate doesn’t have to be fatalistic. It can be destiny and freedom just as easily.