Teach Them To Deal With Difficult People Like This

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Dads, Society & Culture, Education, Parenting, Wisdom, Ryan Holiday, Kids & Family, Relationships, Fatherhood, Self-improvement

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🗓️ 2 October 2025

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Life is filled with difficult, frustrating people. As parents, we encounter this reality daily—at work, in traffic, even at our children's afterschool activities.

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2:21.2	Teach them to deal with people like this.
2:24.7	Life is filled with difficult, frustrating people.
2:27.9	It's filled with people who will annoy and disappoint us.
2:29.9	We will fall short, who will fail us.
2:32.8	In the morning, Marksurelius often reminded himself, the people I will deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest,
2:37.3	jealous, and surly.
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