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Welcome to the Daily Stood 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 2000 year old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more you can visit us at DailyStood.com.

You don't know what's going on with people. Those of us who are not celebrity gossip addicts missed it.

But a few weeks before the tragic and premature death of Chadwick Boseman, pictures showed him to be alarmingly thin and hangard.

In common sections and meme accounts, people joked at the effects of a few months of quarantine. Others called him crack panther, implying that drugs were to blame for his radical change in appearance.

Of course, we know now why he looked that way. He was dying of stage 4 colon cancer. He had only a few more days to live.

Even if you did not see these pictures or jump to those conclusions, the lesson is a sobering one. We have no idea what people are going through. The famous singer who puts on weight, the coworker who is messing up over and over again, the new person you're dating who seems to be suddenly preoccupied, the rude person in traffic, even the Karen who is melting down on video at the grocery store.

We have no idea about their private struggles. We have no idea about their pain. Marcus Arelius tried to remind himself that people and events are not asking to be judged by you.

You have the option of having no opinion. He said, so somebody gained weight. So somebody seems differently. Unless you're providing sympathy or help, why don't you mind your own business?

Nobody asked for your criticism. Nobody needs you to make fun of them. They're struggling. They've got more than enough on their plate and they don't need you adding to it. Remember that. Because every time you forget, you risk ending up like the people who got their kicks mocking a guy dying of cancer.

You end up missing what was actually quiet and profound heroism. May he rest in peace.

Hey, it's Ryan Holiday. Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stove podcast. Sometimes you get a surprise email out of the blue and it just makes your day.

In the surprise email, I got a few months ago, came from Arthur Brooks. He was asking me if I wanted to be on his podcast. He said that he read the Daily Stoke and he liked my stuff.

And he wanted to talk about philosophy and modern life. And the reason this, this, this made my day is I'm a huge Arthur Brooks fan. I read everything he publishes in the Atlantic. There's even a Daily Stoke email.

I think a year or two ago about his fantastic piece on professional decline. But, but Arthur Brooks is just, I think one of the great philosophical and political thinkers of our time.

He's a professor of leadership at the Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School. He was previously the president of the Enterprise Institute.

But he's a, I think a great social scientist, a prolific author. He's given hundreds, thousands of speeches all over the world. He mixes science and ancient wisdom, philosophy, music art.

He was even previously a world class professional classical musician. He played the French horn. We really get into it in this episode. We nerd out about stoicism, epicurianism, our obligations to each others as human beings.

We talk about virtue. It's a great conversation. I didn't want it to end. I'm really looking forward to you hearing my conversation with the one and only Arthur Brooks. You can check out his stuff. He's at Arthur Brooks on Twitter. And you can just go to Arthur Brooks.com.

He's got some great books as well that are worth reading. Love your enemies. The conservative heart. The road to freedom. Gross national happiness. And his first book, Who Really Care?

Which is about charitable giving. So a fascinating writer and thinker. And there's also the Arthur Brooks podcast, which you can listen to my episode of and many other illustrious guests. So here is my interview with Arthur Brooks.

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