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Welcome to the Daily Stoke 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. For more you can visit us at DailyStoke.com.

Here's how to be right.

It must have been hard to be as smart as someone like Marcus Aurelius or Seneca. They had the best tutors. They had quick minds.

And then as now they were surrounded by people who were misinformed, often aggressively and arrogantly so. A feeling of condescension must have always been there.

Their positions of power must have made it tempting to win arguments by force or authority as well.

And yet we have, from Marcus Aurelius' acknowledgments and meditations, a sense of how he tried to comport himself.

It's worth applying to our partisan and social media driven times as well. From the literary critic Alexander Marcus says that he learned not to be constantly correcting people or in particular not to jump on them whenever they make an error of usage or a grammatical mistake or mispronounce something.

But just answer their question or add another example or debate the issue itself, not their phrasing or make some other contribution to the discussion and insert the right expression unobtrusively.

Just because you're smart doesn't mean you have to be or get to be a dick. As we've talked about before, it's easier to be clever than it is to be kind, but it's kindness that matters.

That's what the virtue of justice is about. The virtue of wisdom comes to play here too. The more you know the humbler you should get, not the other way around.

It doesn't matter how bright you are, it doesn't matter how educated you are, how right you are. You don't need to go around wielding it like a weapon.

Just make your contribution kindly, unobtrusively, do your job.

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