No One Can Trigger You
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 18 August 2020
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
"There are things that just set you off. There are things that happened to you that you prefer not to think about. There are the things you asked repeatedly for someone to stop. There are the things that decent people are not supposed to do and say.
And yet they happen anyway.
So you get upset. You get triggered."
Find out how you can avoid being triggered on today's Daily Stoic Podcast.
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| 0:56.0 | No one can trigger you. There are things that set you off. There are things that happen |
| 1:00.6 | to you that you prefer not to think about. There are things you asked repeatedly for |
| 1:05.5 | someone to stop. There are things that decent people are not supposed to do and say. |
| 1:10.4 | And yet, they happen anyway. And you get upset. You get triggered. Although not ideal, |
| 1:15.7 | it is at least understandable. We should be patient with other people when they are triggered. |
| 1:20.3 | We should be patient with ourselves when we do. As Marcus said, what matters when you |
| 1:24.6 | fall or fail is to revert back to the training you know and understand your human being. |
| 1:30.6 | The problem is this extra thing we started doing these days, blaming other people for |
| 1:36.0 | triggering us, expecting the world to label every potential frustrating thought or idea |
| 1:41.6 | with a trigger warning. That's not reasonable, right or fair. The stoics knew that other |
| 1:47.0 | people can't trigger us. We can only allow ourselves to be triggered. As Epic Titus said, |
| 1:53.2 | we are complicit in the offenses we take. Our temper is ours to lose. No one can take |
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