The Daily Stoic - No, The World Is Not Conspiring Against You

Episode Date: February 9, 2021

“Sometimes it can feel like you’re surrounded by small-minded idiots. Especially when you’re trying to do something new, important, or good. All of a sudden, you’re dealing with insane red tape, incompetence, or worse, vehement protest from people who plain don’t know what they’re talking about.”Ryan explains why we should focus our energy on being better, not on other peoples flaws, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.***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/dailystoicSee 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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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 at dailystowup.com. No, the world is not conspiring against you. Sometimes it can feel like you're surrounded by small-minded idiots, especially when you're trying to do something new, important, or good. All of a sudden, you're dealing with insane red tape in confidence, or worse, vehement protests from people who plain don't know what they're talking about. We can feel this in the course of ordinary life. Certainly, Marcus Aurelius did. He opens book two of meditations with a pretty accurate picture of people. They're

surly, aggressive, dishonest, mean, pedantic, stupid, and they constantly get in the way of people who are not any of those things. Put together, it's enough to make us not our head to that famous Jonathan Swift quote, when a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign that the dunces are all in a Confederacy against him. Except that this is not a very stoic or productive way to live because it makes it other people's fault. Even Marcus Aurelius realized that for all the negativity in that first quote,

what he really believed and tried to live by was this idea, blame yourself or no one. Instead of getting angry at other people's poor execution, focus on the deficiencies in your instruction. Instead of resenting their protest, examine whether you've been persuasive enough. Don't get mad about red tape. Think about all the bad ideas this process

has actually helped stop. Be forgiving of other people's stupidity or rudeness because you've been plenty of guilty of it yourself at one time or another. The world is not conspiring against us, it is not filled with dunces. If anything, we are the dunces for not focusing our energy on the only things that matter. Our decisions, our attitudes, our actions. Thanks for listening to the Daily Stoke Podcast.

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