Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues,

courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world.

It's not a fact. It's bad, it's dangerous, it's awful, it's mean. But is it?

How quickly we, as the Noah Khan lyric, puts it, state a feeling like a fact.

We take our initial impression of something, our partial view of an entire event, past, present,

future, and decide we know what this is.

We no longer get curious about why someone acted the way they did

or why something happened the way that it did. We know because we can feel it. We take a strong

stance on an issue without taking time to understand what it means, what caused it, who it affects

or its impacts. We immediately jump to a negative conclusion instead of asking ourselves what we might be missing.

This is madness, the Stoics remind us its misery.

Our feelings are not only not facts, most of the time they're wrong.

When we decide our emotional reaction is the truth, curiosity disappears. Humility disappears. Patience disappears.

We stop trying to understand. We stop listening. We stop seeing things as they truly are.

So instead of mistaking feelings for facts, let's pause. Let's get curious. Let's be humble.

Let's be patient. Because the way we feel about

something in the moment is rarely, if ever, a fact.

I don't know if you've ever done any live shopping, but it's blown up. And some of the kids,

I don't know if I call them kids, but some of the Gen Z kids on my staff had to tell me about it.

They really love it because you can find vintage stuff and collectible stuff. I was looking at

some videos of people selling vintage band teas and records and watches. And it's real people selling.

Like if you're going to an estate sale or a really cool trendy shop, not, you know, overpriced stuff,

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