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. Would you be mad at this?

Would you be upset that someone isn't tall, or would you accept it?

Certainly you understand that certain people are drawn to art and others to science or engineering,

that some love country music and others love dense history books. Yet you're

surprised when someone is rude to you or when someone holds a retrograde opinion or fails to say

thank you or spouts crazy conspiracy theories. As if such things aren't, as Marx-Surelius points out in a

famous pseudo-mathematical proof and meditations, as if they

aren't a statistical probability, as if there wasn't going to be someone somewhere who thought

or acted like that. The point is that different people have not just different interests,

but also that a diverse world is going to have a diverse array of different kinds of people.

Some will be wonderful and kind. Some will be annoying. Some will be that mob of people shouting at little kids trying to

integrate a public school. Some will be volunteering to help starving children in countries far away.

Some will contain multitudes like the people who fought bravely against fascism in

World War II and then came home and held up fascism in those public schools that the mobs were

gathering around. People are complicated. People are contradictory. People have limitations and flaws.

People will inspire you one moment and utterly disappoint you the next.

The person who disappointed you, who you disagree with on nearly everything, may one day surprise you with some moment of principled bravery, and then go right back to being the things you dislike.

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