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Welcome to the Daily Stoic, where each day we read a short passage designed to help

you cultivate the strength, 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.

At least it's a chance to do this. It would have been much better if this hadn't happened.

If your employee had listened, if your parents could respect your boundaries, if your neighbor

wasn't so rude, if people hadn't been so reckless, if your kids had passed their math test,

if nobody had taken offense to your joke. But that's not how it shook out. And while that's

not preferable, it is the reality. You could be a bonnet, you could point the finger, you

could run away from it. Or you could see that this is at least a chance, a chance to

have a conversation or rather to get some practice at having those difficult conversations

we have to have in life. Knocking on your neighbor's door and talking to them without losing

your temper, calling the employee into your office and having to let them go, apologizing

for the remark you made, having to teach your kids a tough lesson, confronting your parents.

One of the stoics don't dread these things, they embrace them. It's fortunate that this

happened, Marcus, really, it said, it's fortunate that it happened to me because not everyone

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