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

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

They're not wrong. They're just cut off from truth. They don't know. You understand that, right?

They're not aware that they've fallen for a scam. They don't know that they've been taken down a rabbit hole. They don't realize that things are

more complicated than they think, that there's more information that they haven't seen,

that their perspective is being warped. In meditations, Marcus Aurelius, no doubt exposed to the

same ignorant and frustrating or strange people that exist today, tries to remind himself by

quoting Plato, that against their will, their souls are cut off from truth. This is why people

do things that are unkind or stupid or against their self-interest,

because it doesn't seem that way to them. No, they're in the sway of a demagogue. They're limited

by their education. They haven't had, as the famous opening line from the Great Gatsby reminds us,

all the advantages that you've had. By the way, there's a new

100-year anniversary edition I've been reading, and I love it. This is not without its consequences to you

or to society, but it doesn't change the fact that these people are victims, that they are not this way

on purpose. And when you keep this in mind, Marx really says it will make you more patient

with other people. Besides, haven't you been wrong before? Haven't you done stuff that in retrospect

seems dumb or weird? Of course you have. But you didn't think that at the time. And guess what else?

People were largely patient with you and you were afforded a certain amount of grace,

or you wouldn't have gotten to where you are now.

So let's extend that same patience and empathy to others.

It is only fair.

So I am recording this in an Airbnb.

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