Why Are You Surprised?
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🗓️ 30 April 2026
⏱️ 4 minutes
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The surprising thing about all this is that you were surprised. How could you not have seen this coming?
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| 1:05.3 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast. Designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, courage, discipline, |
| 1:14.0 | justice, and wisdom into the real world. |
| 1:19.7 | Why are you surprised? Your boss, who is a jerk, pulled a jerk move. Your mother, who is |
| 1:27.0 | passive aggressive, said something passive move. Your mother, who is passive-aggressive, said something |
| 1:28.5 | passive-aggressive. That dishonest politician lied. That loud neighbor was loud. The surprising thing |
| 1:35.7 | about all this is that you were surprised. How could you not have seen this coming? That sort of person |
| 1:41.8 | was bound to do that, Marks Relius writes, in meditations. |
| 1:45.7 | You might as well resent a fig tree for secreting juice. |
| 1:50.1 | Why are you letting it catch you off guard? |
| 1:51.9 | Why are you taking it personally? |
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