Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast, where each day we read a passage of ancient wisdom

designed to help you in your everyday life.

Well on Thursdays, we not only read the Daily Meditation, but we answer some questions

from listeners in fellow Stoics, we're trying to apply this philosophy just as you are.

Some of these come from my talks, some of these come from Zoom sessions that we do with

the Daily Stoic Life members or as part of the challenges.

Some of them are from interactions I have on the street when there happened to be someone

there recording.

But thank you for listening and we hope this is of use to you.

Be this kind of person.

In matters of law, Cato was a stickler and matters of principle, Cato was uncompromising.

His opponents found him exhausting, even some of his friends thought he was impossible.

Yet, as we wrote recently, people who bumped into him in the street were always surprised,

by how nice he was, by how low he he was.

There was the man who struck Cato in the baths, not aware of whom he was fighting with,

only to be unceremoniously forgiven by the great Roman he did assaulted.

There were the local dignitaries who didn't notice the powerful politician in their midst,

and were politely reminded that future visitors might not be as easy going as Cato.

Again, few would have described the meticulous Cato as low maintenance, but in an important

way, which is to say, ironically, in unimportant things he was.

And we should follow this example.

In a world of carons, we must get better at shrugging our shoulders at messed up orders

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