Some Folks You Just Can’t Reach
The Daily Stoic
Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures
4.5 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2020
⏱️ 3 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
"It’d be wonderful if everyone could agree on some very basic things. Like, you can’t use racial slurs. And no, you shouldn’t judge a person for their gender or their sexual orientation. It’d be wonderful if nobody littered, if people didn’t blast music at 2 AM, if we observed some standard rules of civility for behavior in public. It’d be wonderful if everyone wore a mask and socially distanced as much as possible until we kicked the ass of this pandemic that is killing hundreds of thousands of people worldwide.
Obviously we’re not there. Not everyone can agree on these things, apparently. The line from Cool Hand Luke stands eternal: Some men you just can’t reach."
Ryan describes how to deal with frustrating people on today's Daily Stoic Podcast.
***
If you enjoyed this week’s podcast, we’d love for you to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps with our visibility, and the more people listen to the podcast, the more we can invest into it and make it even better.
Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/signup
Follow @DailyStoic:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/dailystoic
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic/
Facebook: http://facebook.com/dailystoic
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/dailystoic
See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stoke Podcast early and add free on Amazon music. Download the app today. |
| 0:13.6 | Welcome to the Daily Stoke. For each day, we read a short passage designed to help you cultivate the strength, insight, wisdom necessary for living good life. |
| 0:23.3 | Each one of these passages is based on the 2000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at DailyStoic.com. |
| 0:37.3 | Some folks, you just can't reach. It would be wonderful if everyone could agree on basic stuff like no, you can't use racial slurs. No, you can't judge a person for their gender or their orientation. |
| 0:50.3 | It'd be wonderful if nobody littered. If they didn't blast music at 2am, if we observe some standard rules about what was acceptable as far as behavior in public went. |
| 1:01.3 | It'd be wonderful if everyone wore a mask and socially distance as much as possible until we kick the ass of this pandemic that is killing hundreds of thousands of people worldwide. |
| 1:11.3 | But obviously we are not there. Obviously not everyone can agree on these things. The line from Cool Hand Luke stands eternal. Some men, you just can't reach. |
| 1:23.3 | It doesn't matter how eloquent you are, how many times you explain it, how right you are, it's true. As Marcus Arelius writes, |
| 1:30.3 | you can talk until you're blue in the face, but they'll just keep on doing it because a world without selfish or ignorant or unreachable people is impossible. And from time to time, we are going to bump into these people. |
| 1:43.3 | Can you come to terms with that? Or are you going to let it drive you crazy? Is it going to make you better? Or can you be happy reaching the people you can reach? Happy standing on the common ground with the decent folks who are willing to gather with you there. |
| 1:56.3 | And who knows, maybe eventually, belatedly, the others will come around. And it's not in your control if they do or don't, so you can't worry about it. |
| 2:06.3 | Thanks for listening to the Daily Stoic podcast. If you could leave us a review in iTunes, it helps a great deal. And of course, if you know anyone who had benefit from these messages, please spread the word. Thanks. |
| 2:26.3 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stoic early and add free on Amazon music, download the Amazon music app today, or you can listen early and add free with Wondery Plus in Apple podcasts. |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Daily Stoic | Backyard Ventures and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.