The Daily Stoic - Don’t Make Assumptions

Episode Date: March 29, 2023

You don’t get a joke, so you say it’s not funny. You don’t like something, so you believe it sucks. You’re white, so you’ve always taken it for granted that the color ‘nude’ roughly matches your skin. You drive on the right side of the road, so it’s weird when you go somewhere and people drive on the left side. You love your job, so you have no patience for people complaining about theirs. You’ve been successful, so you can’t understand why other people struggle.We assume…and we make asses of ourselves.Our personal experiences make up a tiny percentage of the world, but a huge percentage of how we perceive the world.🎧 Check out Ryan's interview with Champion Distance Runner Lauren Fleshman.✉️ Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: https://dailystoic.com/dailyemail🏛 Check out the Daily Stoic Store for Stoic inspired products, signed books, and more.📱 Follow us: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, FacebookSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stoic Podcast early and add free on Amazon music. Download the app today. Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom every day life. Each one of these passages is based on the 2,000 year old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us dailystoward.com. Don't make assumptions. You don't get a joke so you say it's not funny.

You don't like something so you believe it sucks. Your white so you've always taken it for granted that the color nude roughly matches your skin. You drive on the right side of the road so it's weird when you go someplace and people drive on the left side. You love your job so you have no patience for people complaining about theirs. You've been successful so you can't understand why other people struggle. We assume and we make asses of ourselves. Our personal experience is makeup a tiny percentage of the world, but a huge percentage of how we perceive the world. We violate the rule that the great distance runner, Laura Fleshman, articulated on the Daily Stoic podcast, which you should definitely listen to, is a great episode.

You really only needed to have an experience like that, probably once, to go to have it shift into all these other places of your life, to bring out awareness everywhere. And so I find that really powerful. I wish we could mandate everyone have experiences like that. You're just so much less likely to assume that you're the default and you just make space. You make space for there to be other ways of being. Marcus, it really is wrote that everything turns on your assumptions about it. That's on you. She said, you can pluck out that hasty judgment at will and like steering the ship around the point you will find column C's,

fair weather, and a safe port. He was saying that going through the world with hasty assumptions and prejudices is a fragile way of existing. It's also a selfish way of existing too. Astoev tries not to jump to hasty judgments. Instead, Astoev is generous with assumptions that something was an accident that someone grew up differently than we did, that a joke must not be for us. Astoev puts their impressions, their implicit judgments, their selfishness up to the test. They ask, is this true? Is this missing something? Is this just? A stoic makes space for there to be other ways of being, even and especially the ways that we don't understand. Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stoic early and add free on Amazon music,

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