Welcome to the Daily Stoic podcast, where each day we read a passage of ancient wisdom

designed to help you in your everyday life.

Well on Thursdays, we not only read the Daily Meditation, but we answer some questions

from listeners in fellow Stoics.

We're trying to apply this philosophy just as you are.

Some of these come from my talks.

Some of these come from Zoom sessions that we do with Daily Stoic Life members or as part

of the challenges.

Some of them are from interactions I have on the street when there happen to be someone

they're recording.

But thank you for listening and we hope this is of use to you.

This is always there.

Every retail business knows about shrinkage, the percentage of goods shoplifted or stolen

off the floor.

Every manufacturer knows how to calculate their defect rate because no production run is

perfect.

Every shipping company knows there will be an error rate, a delivery failure rate, even

a disappeared into thin error rate.

Every credit card processor knows about fraudulent purchase rates and disputed charges.

And the bigger the business, the larger these numbers are, certainly in terms of cost.

It's frustrating, it's expensive, it's also a fact of life.

Market's a really is writes that a world without obnoxious people is impossible.

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