We Are All Unreliable Narrators | Revenge Is A Dish Best Not Served
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 13 October 2023
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
All day long, we tell ourselves stories.
When something goes wrong—“this is my fault.” We blame ourselves even though the reality might be that we had little control over the situation. When someone is rude—“they don’t like me.” We take other people's actions or behaviors personally even though the reality might be that they are going through a tough time. We walk into a meeting—“they’re all judging me.” We think everyone is thinking about us when the reality is that everyone is thinking about themselves.
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And in today's excerpt from The Daily Stoic, Ryan explains how to respond in moments of conflict without adding insult on top of injury, while educating ourselves on the difference between justice and revenge.
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| 0:00.0 | Emily, do you remember when One Direction called it a day? |
| 0:02.9 | I think you'll find there are still many people who can't talk about it. |
| 0:06.6 | Well luckily, we can. A lot. |
| 0:09.0 | Because our new season of terribly famous is all about the first One Directioner to go it alone. |
| 0:14.3 | Zayn Malik. |
| 0:15.2 | We'll take you on Zayn's journey from Shilad from Bradford |
| 0:18.5 | to being in the world's biggest boy band and explore why, |
| 0:21.8 | when he reached the top, he decided to walk away. |
| 0:24.6 | Follow terribly famous wherever you get your podcast. |
| 0:30.4 | Hello, I'm Hannah. |
| 0:31.5 | And I'm Syruti. |
| 0:32.3 | And we are the hosts of A Redhanded, a weekly true crime podcast. |
| 0:36.0 | Every week on Redhanded, we get stuck into the most talked about cases. |
| 0:39.6 | But we also dig into those you might not have heard of, |
| 0:42.0 | like the Nephiles Royal Massacre and the Nithory Child Sacrifices. |
| 0:45.7 | Whatever the case, we want to know what pushes people to the extremes of human behaviour. |
| 0:50.8 | Find, download and binge Redhanded wherever you listen to your podcasts. |
| 1:00.7 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast. |
| 1:06.0 | On Friday, we do double duty, not just reading our daily meditation, |
| 1:09.5 | but also reading a passage from the Daily Stoic. |
| 1:12.8 | My book, 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance in the Heart of Living, |
| 1:17.7 | which I wrote with my wonderful collaborator, translator, |
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