Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation

designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life.

Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of

history's greatest men and women to help you learn from them, to follow in their example,

and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom.

For more, visitdailystoic.com. This is the secret to success in a happy life.

It was offensive.

It was stupid.

It was unexpected.

It didn't need to go this way.

It's not something you're going to accept.

And what should you do about it then? How about nothing?

At least at first. You see, that's what successful and happy people do. They don't get riled up easily.

They have command of themselves and their emotions. A rude remark, a costly error, an outrageous

decision, a profound injustice. It's not that they don't, a profound injustice, is not that they don't

care about these things. It's that they don't react immediately to them.

Thenodorus, the stoic advisor to the young Octavian, famously advised his charge, and the future

Emperor Augustus, to count all the letters of the alphabet before reacting to things that made him angry. This is essential advice because it's only fools who fly off the handle. It's the immature who say the first thought that pops into their head. It's the irresponsible who act without thinking. The wise pause and reflect. They consider their options.

They take the best path forward. The Stoics employed a range of techniques to move past their

anger. And we've been thinking about this a lot over the last year at Daily Stoic. I've found

myself getting a little more provoked and triggered than I'd like to be. And I came up with this

cool challenge coin that helps me do just that. It's got this shiny mirror on the front so I can

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