The Daily Stoic - Let It Go, You’re Plenty Guilty Yourself

Episode Date: March 22, 2022

Ryan talks about how you should reflect on yourself before correcting somebody else.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.

Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stoke podcast early and add free on Amazon music. Download the app today. Welcome to the Daily Stoic. For each day, we read a short passage designed to help you cultivate the strength, insight, wisdom necessary for living the good life. insight, wisdom necessary for living good life. Each one of these passages is based on the 2000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at dailystoic.com. Let it go. You're plenty guilty yourself. Like you've never cut in line on purpose or on accident. You've never done something selfish or spoken with an attitude like you've never been jealous or petty or mean. Of course you have.

You've done all these things we all have. Yet when other people do them, it's somehow different. It's a transgression, a violation. That's why we stew, we plot. We shower them with insults because when they do it, it's intentional to sign of bad character and it must be stopped. Come on. The Stoics teaches when we butt up against someone else's awfulness to always remember when we ourselves have behaved like that. Marcus writes patiently about considering the motivations of the person responsible, of

trying to give them the benefit of the doubt, of considering the crazy possibility that they aren't irredeemable assholes. Who knows? They might even think they were doing the right thing. So whatever is pissing you off today, let it go. We are all plenty guilty of our own sins and stupidity Which is why we need to forgive and forget other peoples? We need to give them the same clemency and patience we grant ourselves

Which is to say basically an unlimited amount. This is the essence of the golden rule It's easy to treat others the way you would like to be treated when everything is looking up It's when the chips are down that the golden rule is hardest to employ, which of course is when it is most important of all. If you like the podcast that we do here and you want to get it via email every morning, you can sign up at dailystoke.com slash email. on. free with Wondery Plus and Apple podcasts.