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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we read a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you in your everyday life.

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Don't just be tough, be practical.

A stoic is tough as we said, a stoic doesn't look for or make excuses, but does that mean a stoic is also a glutton for punishment? Partly. As Stephen Rinella writes in his wonderful book, American Buffalo, a story of the great American mammal and his hunting trip in Alaska to hunt a wild one, there is a fine line between being practical and being a candy ass, which is a word that Steve's father used to describe someone who was the opposite of tough.

He said, when I'm in the woods and I run into a situation that seems like a bad idea, whether it's climbing up a steep icy mountainside or taking a canoe through a nasty stretch of rapids, I always ask myself which of these two words practical or candy ass best defines my decision making.

Putting aside the fact that this is an outdated term, which some may find offensive, that's a perfect distinction. A stoic is not a candy ass, a stoic is tough, but also practical.

Marcus really is himself a hunter writes in meditations that the response to brambles in the path is not to plunge into them unnecessarily, but to go around them.

Unless, of course, there is no other alternative in which case the obstacle was the way we endure the blows and twists of light. We have a heart for any fate, but we also have a brain.

We are practical. We look for sustainable painless solutions. If they exist, we compromise. We look for efficiencies. We don't care how something looks to others, only whether it gets the job done.

If we need help, we'll ask for it. There's an easier path we'll take it, provided we can still hold tight to our standards and our self respect.

We're tough, but only when we need to be. We're practical first.

As I've said many, many times, my favorite translation of Marx's Relias is meditations by the one and only Gregory Hayes.

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