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Welcome to the Daily Stoodle Podcast where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom every day 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.

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Don't make assumptions.

You don't get a joke so you say it's not funny. You don't like something so you believe it sucks.

You're white so you've always taken it for granted that the color nude roughly matches your skin.

You drive on the right side of the road so it's weird when you go someplace and people drive on the left side.

You love your job so you have no patience for people complaining about theirs.

You've been successful so you can't understand why other people struggle.

We assume and we make asses of ourselves.

Our personal experience is make up a tiny percentage of the world, but a huge percentage of how we perceive the world.

We violate the rule that the great distance runner, Laura Fleshman, articulated on the Daily Stoodle Podcast, which you should definitely listen to is a great episode.

You really only needed to have an experience like that probably once to go to have it shift into all these other places of your life to bring out awareness everywhere.

I find that really powerful. I wish we could mandate everyone else experiences like that.

You're just so much less likely to assume that you're the default and you just make space.

You make space for there to be other ways of being.

Marcus, it really is wrote that everything turns on your assumptions about it. That's on you.

She said, you can pluck out that hasty judgment at will and like steering the ship around the point you will find calm seas, fair weather, and a safe port.

He was saying that going through the world with hasty assumptions and prejudices is a fragile way of existing.

It's also a selfish way of existing too.

Astoec tries not to jump to hasty judgments instead Astoec is generous with assumptions that something was an accident that someone grew up differently than we did.

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