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Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic Podcast. On Thursdays, we do double duty, not just reading our daily meditation,

but also reading a passage from the book, The Daily Stoic, 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living, which I wrote with my wonderful co-author and collaborator, Steve Enhancelman.

And so today, we'll give you a quick meditation from one of the Stoics, from Epititus Markis Relius, Seneca, then some analysis for me, and then we send you out into the world to do your best to turn these words into works.

If you can't stand the heat, it was Seneca who reminds us that life is no soft affair. Put aside his prescient warnings about fortune and adversity and difficulty, all of which feel rather relevant right now.

And let's just focus on the world of ideas. The pursuit of wisdom is not an easy path, it's contentious, it's filled with disagreements and unpleasant ideas.

And so you better toughen yourself up, because you're certainly going to have more luck thickening your skin than you will making the world a nice and pleasant place, you snowflake.

If you're going to take a controversial view or even an ordinary stand in this life, you better get ready, because that stand is your problem.

It's not everyone else's job to keep you feeling safe and supported, it's not the world's job to conform to your world view.

On the contrary, truth is a battlefield, you better be prepared to fight, to defend, to be challenged, because that's how ideas work.

That's how truth is uncovered and vetted. Getting offended, that's your problem, your problem, that someone else dared to express their opinion and you don't like it, your problem, that the evidence is challenging what you like to believe, what you've gone on the record supporting, your problem, your problem.

But as we said, it's also your opportunity to change your mind, to engage, to discuss, to question, to learn, to reply, to grow.

If you can't do that, if you can't stand the heat, well then get out of the kitchen and pack it in, because this life is not for you.

If you want to make that pursuit of wisdom a more active part of your life, I recommend the Daily Stoke Read to Lead Challenge.

All sorts of great practices based on Stoke Philosophy that will help you become a better leader and as a result a better leader, and I think a wiser and less fragile person.

You can check that out at dailystoke.com slash read, and of course if you join Daily Stoke Life, you get that course and all the other courses totally for free.

We'd love to have you, see you soon.

Don't get mad, get help.

Are you angry when someone's armpit stanker when their breath is bad? What would be the point?

Having such a mouth and such armpits there is going to be some smell.

You say they must have sense, can't they tell how offensive they are? Well you have sense too, so congratulations.

Use your natural reason to awaken their show them, call it out. The person will listen to you and cure them without useless anger.

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