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It's possible to tune these things out. We have so many strong opinions, especially about things we don't like.

We don't like it and we want you to know that we don't like it. That musician, that politician, that restaurant, that way that so-and-so talks.

It's almost like we take pleasure in the misery those things cause us. And needless to say, this is not stoic.

You think that Marcus really didn't have things he didn't like? Of course he did.

Santa Couture, they work to get from a place of hate or dislike to what the stoics called indifference.

Almost a zen-like nothingness towards what displeased them.

Recently Malcolm Gladwell asked Joe Rogan in their epic interview on Rogan's podcast, what kind of comics he didn't like?

And Rogan responded that he didn't actually have any.

One of the things I've gotten really good at as I've gotten older, he said, is not paying any attention to things I don't like.

Just letting it slide right out of my brain and onto the floor. I'm not interested. It's just I spent so much time when I was younger and stupid or worrying about things I don't like.

Being upset at things I don't like. Well that sucks. Why do people like that? What's wrong with them?

And then I realized what a gigantic waste of resources that is. Just a huge waste of energy. I don't care anymore, he said.

You know, as long as they're not stealing material, as long as they're not doing something terrible, the other comics victimizing, as long as they're not doing that, I really don't care.

They're doing well. Good luck.

We have the power to hold no opinion about a thing, Marcus Realius wrote, and to not let it upset our state of mind, for things have no natural power to shape our judgment.

Beautiful.

As Rogan would say, it's difficult to get to this place 100% of the time. It's closer to a work in progress, but we can try.

Our energy is limited in this life. How are we going to spend it? Getting upset, thinking about what we say we don't care about? It's ridiculous.

To have no opinion is humbler too. As Rogan concluded, you might not like someone's music, but they'll have a full staple center of people rocking out.

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