The Daily Stoic - How to Be More Patient With People

Episode Date: April 1, 2022

Ryan talks about the key to dealing with people who you will inevitably come across.Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/emailFollow us: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, and FacebookSee 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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Misinformation, disinformation, partisanship, selfishness, shamelessness. These things run rampant in these aggravating, dysfunctional times. But of course, not really any worse than they ever were before. It's simply that social media allows us to see it all more clearly with algorithms that amplify conflict and controversy for the purposes of engagement. As Marcus really experienced during his own plague times, people have always been crazy. They've always been cruel. They've always been stupid. There's no period in human history that does not include a citizenry prone to behaving

like a mob when sufficiently ginned up, which is why Marcus tried to catch himself before writing off anyone or any group as irredeivable. Against our will, our souls are cut off from truth," he writes in meditations, quoting Epictetus paraphrasing Plato. But it's more than just truth we get separated from, he notes, it's also kindness and self-control and justice and all the virtues. It's something people want to be this way, but they catch something. Or as we've talked about something catches them, infects them, misleads them, radicalizes them.

It's a kind of virus, ironically. It's important to keep this in mind, Marcus, reminds himself. It will make you more patient with other people. Try to recall this. The misled, the radicalized. They didn't ask to be infected. They don't even know that they're sick. Against their will, against their knowledge. They are made this way. If they could see this or be made to see this. That this is what has happened, they would almost certainly change, but they can't, and they probably never will be able to. And that's the real crime here. It's frustrating and

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