Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues,

courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world.

Burn this letter.

They're wrong. They did you wrong. You know better. You'll show them.

So you sit down and you write, a text and email, whereas people have done for thousands of years, a letter.

And you know what people have also done for thousands of years? And what you will almost certainly do as well, you will come to regret it.

There's a famous poem taught to young naval officers

that offers them rules to follow to succeed in their profession. One of the most important stanzas goes

like this. Dost think in a moment of anger, tis well with thy seniors to fight. They prosper who

burn in the morning, the letters they wrote overnight.

This is also the very same advice that Athena Doris gave a future emperor named Octavian.

He told him that there was a rule he was always to follow. Whenever you feel yourself getting

angry, Caesar, Athena Doris advised, don't say or do anything until you've repeated the 24

letters of the alphabet to yourself. It's not that you should never speak truth to power. It's just

you should never do it while you are angry. Do it after you've calmed down. Do it after you've had

time to think about it. Do it after you've slept on it.

Do it after you've counted the letters in the alphabet.

Delay is the remedy.

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