I sit in my Dallas apartment as I tap this out, and I’m entering week three of sheltering-in-place. It’s a Saturday night. I am thinking about the stories we rely on to pull us through hard times. Here are three of mine.

It’s the 1960s, the Vietnam War rages on. James Stockdale, a naval aviator, is shot down over North Vietnam. He becomes the ranking officer of the Hanoi Hilton, a POW camp. He survived and ultimately returns home. How? It’s called the Stockdale Paradox. Stockdale, who later rose to the rank of admiral, explained that you must think two thoughts at once; you are in a world of s____ and must fully acknowledge your predicament. Yet at the same time you must know and believe fully that someday this ordeal will end.

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