This is The Math That Losers Do | What Virtue Is This Moment Asking of You?

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. This is the math that losers do. You could be focused on what you're gonna do about it. You could be focused on solutions. You could be thinking about forgiveness or patience or acceptance. Instead, you're thinking about who's to blame, making as the Noah Kahn song goes Making quiet calculations where the fall lies. Why are they like this? Why did they do it? Why didn't they listen? Why couldn't have things gone differently? The better question is what good is all this going to do you? It happened. It's done. It doesn't change your responsibilities. Nothing is more pathetic, Marcus Aurelius writes in Meditations, than people who run around in circles delving into the things that lie beneath and conducting investigations into the souls of the people around them. He's saying that it's very easy to get distracted by putting other people on trial, and that this is a way to let yourself off the hook. We should instead focus on how we're gonna respond to this, how we're going to, as the Stoics teachers, use this as an opportunity to practice virtue. We can keep running the numbers, replaying the mistakes, assign and fault, but the total never changes. That type of math keeps us stuck in the past. The past is gone, and no amount of calculation will bring it back or make it fair. What we have is agency right now. We can choose to let it go, to move on, to move forward. Agency doesn't exist in the past, only exists now. Look. This is the time of year we try to get our health in order, try to get back on track, try to have better habits, put better things into our bodies. So maybe you're thinking about supplements. If you are, you know it's a confusing space. There's a lot of brands out there. It's a low trust category, not a lot of regulation, lot of scammers, lot of big unpronounceable ingredients. It's hard. And that's where momentous comes in, and it's also what makes them stand out. They become a high trust brand in a low trust category. They weren't satisfied with the industry standard, so they built the momentous standard, which is their commitment to doing things the right way, not the easy way. They use only the highest quality ingredients on the planet. Everything is based with clinically backed, highly bioavailable nutrients, no fillers, and no artificial sweeteners. Every product is independently certified by NSF for sport or Informed Sport, which means they test it for contaminants, heavy metals, banned substances, and verify for label accuracy. If you wanna start this year with supplements, I can't recommend them enough. You can try their protein or creatine or omega three. Those are all ones that I have tried. I've been taking the creatine lately. And right …