The Daily Stoic - Don't Complain, Respond!

Episode Date: June 22, 2021

“We live in a time when people who hear opinions they dislike think they can demand those opinions be unsaid or never repeated. How dare you criticize _______! Why did you have to go and get all political? You’ve offended me. You’re wrong! Shut up! Unfollow!”Ryan explains how you should respond when faced with differences of opinion.***If you enjoyed this week’s podcast, we’d love for you to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps with our visibility, and the more people listen to the podcast, the more we can invest into it and make it even better.Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/signupFollow Daily Stoic:Twitter: https://twitter.com/dailystoicInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic/Facebook: http://facebook.com/dailystoicYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/dailystoicTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@daily_stoic See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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For more, you can visit us at dailysteo.com. Don't complain. Respond. We live in a time when people who hear opinions they dislike think that they can demand those opinions be unsaid or never repeated. How dare you criticize blank? Why did you have to go and get all political? You've offended me. You're wrong. Shut up. Unfollow. Unsubscribe. Almost never do these responses include what people who aren't in the right usually include in their offending opinions, an evidence-based reply, carefully considered considered facts and articulate counterargument. Instead, they just want to shut down the conversation altogether.

They want to bully the other person into conforming with their worldview, as if yelling were being mean is a sufficient proxy for being right. Needless to say, this is not how the Stoic responds to things they dislike or disagree with. Remember, Marcus Aurelius appreciated people with different points of view. He didn't worry about being proven wrong because he thought that changing his mind was a good thing. Epic Titus wasn't easily offended either. He knew that it took two to tango and that it's impossible to be offended without our consent. The Stoics were not bullies, neither were they snowflakes. They trained in rhetoric. They trained in logic from childhood on.

When they were challenged or when they disagreed, do you know what they did? They responded. Cleverly, creatively, they responded with kindness and concern even to people who they believed were totally wrong or even arguing in bad faith, because they knew that truth came from civil discussion. They knew that there was no such thing as keeping politics out of it, because life is politics, and they certainly didn't so identify with their political party or their beliefs or their reputations,

that they couldn't handle criticism or feedback or the prospect of having to change the former in light of the latter. Which is what we need to go back to practicing, feedback or the prospect of having to change the former in light of the latter. Which is what we need to go back to practicing, less we risk watching wisdom and growth and civility cease entirely right before our very eyes. Hey, it's Ryan. Thanks so much for listening. If you could leave a review for the podcast, we'd really appreciate it.

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