How To Overcome Life's Most Difficult Situations (Amor Fati)
The idea of 'amor fati' is to love and embrace whatever the outcome is; no matter how hard we work towards a certain goal. We can't decide how the customer will treat us. We can't control the weather. If we can't grasp the idea of controlling external variables...then what can we do? We can foster a mindset that appreciates whatever happens and to find the hidden beauty in everything. We can control our attitude and learn to love our fate. In other words, "Amor Fati". This is a Latin phrase that may be translated as "love of fate" or "love of one's fate" that was made popular by the ancient Stoics. If it happened, then it was meant to happen.
The great German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche would describe his formula for human greatness as amor fati—a love of fate. “That one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backwards, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it….but love it.”
The Stoics were not only familiar with this attitude but they embraced it. Two thousand years ago, writing in his own personal journal which would become known as Meditations, Emperor Marcus Aurelius would say: “A blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it.” Another Stoic, Epictetus, who as a crippled slave has faced adversity after adversity, echoed the same: “Do not seek for things to happen the way you want them to; rather, wish that what happens happen the way it happens: then you will be happy.”
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