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Welcome to another episode of Ask Daily Stoke. Thanks. You guys send me your questions to info at DailyStoke.com.

You're pressing questions about stoicism, about markets, or really, it's about Seneca, about me, about reading, whatever it is.

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Got some cool questions for you. Send them in an info at DailyStoke.com.

We've got more for next week. Chris's question is how the stoics talk about ignoring praise in cheers of doing what's right,

but how would a stoic response to someone who ignores the praise or cheers, but they're doing it to do the wrong thing?

Is it this way to be unethical? I think that's a great question.

I think at the core of stoicism is the belief in virtue, the idea of doing the right thing. That's hard to define.

I feel like if there's a failing in the stoics, there is no stoic 10 commandments where it's very clear what the stoics things you should and shouldn't do.

It's almost just expected that we're to know what virtue is.

But there is an argument to be made that what stoicism could do is just make you a better sociopath.

By removing your fears, your worries, carrying what other people think it's just making you worse.

Obviously that's not what the stoics intended. There are certainly people, we see people in the pickup community.

There have been not good people in history and they're not good people now who are reading these ideas and they're not using it to be better.

I think this is where the reading in stoicism really becomes important because when you truly read Marcus Aurelius, he's not just saying ignore the praise in cheers,

so you can do whatever you want, the way that a previous emperor, Nero or Tiberius acted, he's saying don't listen to them so you can do what's good for the all of Rome.

Don't care about appearances, so that way you're not distracted or tempted by money.

He's like don't care about impressing people so you don't need to be fooling around with beautiful women.

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