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38/365: Cleanthes on willingness

Events will unfold and we will have a choice to go with them and accept them, or fight them, kicking and screaming while they pull us away.

A simple perspective is the prescription Cleanthes is offering us:

How might we use the circumstance we’ve landed in and see the new fields of opportunity?

What previously unobtainable outcomes exist because of this new fate?

This willingness opens up the possibilities that can’t be seen with eyes focused on a fight.