I am blogging everyday (or nearly everyday) on The Daily Stoic.

This is an interesting stoic because Star Wars. There’s the Yoda line about fear leading to anger and on and on to the dark side. This stoic is about hope as the start of that. And it makes sense. Hope deals with want and when a want isn’t being met it can lead to fear and to anger and to hate and to the dark side. I use a lot of references as part of these stoics and I think this is another that applies. Often when I go to the course with expectations, hoping to do well it will often end up the exact opposite. I just had one of those days where I had hope and yet failed to meet that want. This led to fear and anger and frustration. It wasn’t until the end that once I relaxed and allowed the game to come to me that things went a little better.