There Will Always Be These Kinds of People | Wealth and Freedom are Free
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 25 March 2021
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
“It’s easy to become disappointed with humanity each time you step into your car. Not even because of how angry and aggressive some drivers are. Or from the amount of litter you see on the side of the road. The slow, clueless drivers who needlessly cause traffic are sufficient.”
Ryan explains why you have to prepare yourself for what life throws at you, and reads The Daily Stoic’s entry of the day, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, prime members, you can listen to the Daily Stoic podcast early and add free on Amazon music. Download the app today. |
| 0:11.6 | Welcome to another episode of the Daily Stoic podcast. On Thursdays, we do double duty not just reading our daily |
| 0:19.2 | meditation, but also reading a passage from the book The Daily Stoic, |
| 0:24.1 | 366 meditations on wisdom, perseverance, and the art of living, which I wrote with my wonderful |
| 0:29.9 | co-author and collaborator, Stephen Hanselman. And so today we'll give you a quick meditation |
| 0:36.3 | from one of the Stoics, from Epititus Markis Relius, Seneca, and some analysis for me. And then we |
| 0:41.7 | send you out into the world to do your best to turn these words into works. |
| 0:49.7 | There will always be these kinds of people. It's easy to be disappointed with humanity each time |
| 0:55.6 | you step into your car, not even because of how angry and aggressive some drivers are, or the |
| 1:00.6 | amount of litter you see on the side of the road. The slow, clueless drivers who needlessly |
| 1:05.9 | cause traffic are sufficient. Who are these people? Who gave them a license? What is their problem? |
| 1:12.0 | These are the kinds of questions you could say or scream from behind the wheel. That's one option. |
| 1:17.8 | Or you could try the modern version of a question markis Relius would ask himself each time he |
| 1:22.9 | encountered a frustrating or incompetent person. Is a world without bad drivers possible? |
| 1:28.8 | There are over 1.4 billion cars on the road worldwide. Isn't it likely that some of them will be |
| 1:35.8 | poorly operated? So you've met one. So one of those cars is in front of you right now. |
| 1:41.7 | Is that really so surprising? A better way to drive to understand these people is to understand |
| 1:46.7 | that the world is a diverse place. Some of us are good at many things. Some of us are good at a |
| 1:52.2 | few things. Some of us are wonderful people and terrible drivers. Others are courteous, alert |
| 1:57.5 | drivers who are complete monsters at work or at home. Others are just bafflingly inept at basically |
| 2:03.4 | everything for whom life must be completely overwhelming and difficult. Prepare yourself in |
| 2:09.2 | advance for the reality of this diversity better yet come to appreciate it. It makes the world |
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