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

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

There will always be people who don't get it.

Do you think everyone understood why Cato was so alarmed about Caesar?

Do you think everyone understood why Thrasia or Agrippinus refused to bend the knee to Nero?

Or why Routilius Rufus made a legal martyr of himself when corrupt interests brought him up on

false charges?

Of course they didn't.

In fact, Routilius's friends begged him to defend himself. Cato and Thracia and Agrippinus were seen as obstinate,

alarmist, even annoying. People are busy. People are misinformed. People have skewed priorities

and conflicts of interests. They're not always

going to understand. They're not always going to get it. Whether it's politics or business or personal,

you just can't expect everyone to see what you see. Honestly, if they did, it would probably mean that

you're heading in the wrong direction. That's what Chrysippus said anyway, that if you wanted to follow a did, it would probably mean that you're heading in the wrong direction.

That's what Chrysippus said anyway, that if you wanted to follow a mom, he wouldn't have become a philosopher.

Stoicism isn't about being appreciated.

It's not about fitting in.

It's about doing what's right.

It's about saying what needs to be said.

It's about being who you feel you need to be.

So if you're waiting for your friends to understand you, if you're holding back until you get approval from family members or colleagues, if you hope 100% of your audience is going to be

on board, you're waiting for something that may never come. Do what you believe is right.

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