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Each one of these passages is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy

that has guided some of history's greatest men and women.

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How will this change you?

How will this change you? John Profumo screwed up. He had an affair with what turned out to be a spy. He lied about it. And as a result the Prime Minister lost his job. The country was embarrassed, he was cancelled, driven into political

exile from which he was never able to return. Did he deserve all that?

Maybe, probably. But what's interesting is what happened after because instead of

licking his wounds, instead of being angry, instead of nursing many grievances,

what John Perfumo did instead was go to work at Toynbee Hall, a poverty fighting charity in England.

And for the next 40 years he was the charity's single longest serving volunteer, working

his way up from manual labor to its chief fundraiser, almost entirely

without recognition or fanfare.

This is a story I tell in right thing right now, a book about the Stoic virtue of justice, which you can, of course,

pre-order right now. The reason I tell it though is so rare, because here we have

someone engulfed in scandal and shame, largely of his own making, and instead of being made worse by it

instead of trying to settle scores or prove people wrong he just decided to become

better for it. Someone who quietly diligently decided not to be defined by what happened to him,

at least to himself anyway. He did try to prove people wrong, but only in the sense that he tried

to prove that he was not who he was at his worst moment.

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