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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world.

This is the one thing you don't accept.

There's so much happening that's outside our control.

There's stuff that's bigger than us, that predates us, may well outlive us. There's stuff that's happening far away. There's stuff that's bigger than us that predates us may well outlive us.

There's stuff that's happening far away. There's stuff that's happening that doesn't affect us.

There's stuff that we just don't get a say about because nobody asked us and it won't make a

difference. Most of this the Stoics tell us his stuff we will have to come to terms with. We'll have to learn

how to accept as painful and as humbling as that might be. Epictetus calls this the art

of acquiescence, and it's not an easy thing to practice. Mark Srealis reminds himself that he

has the power to have no opinion and to try to keep in mind that the world was not asking to be

judged by him.

And yet, do you know what these two men and the rest of the Stoics did not accept what they

insisted on having opinions about? Injustice. They did not think it was right or wise to be

silent or resigned to what was obviously wrong. Perhaps a better way to think about it is this.

Injustice, whether it's corruption or cruelty, is what we are saving our opinions and our

objections for. Instead of complaining about the weather or our team losing this weekend's championship

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