You Can’t Just Stuff It Down
The Daily Stoic
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🗓️ 28 December 2021
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
Ryan explains why a Stoic should process and deal with their emotions, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.
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| 0:41.8 | Each one of these passages is based on the 2,000 year old philosophy that has guided some |
| 0:46.0 | of history's greatest men and women. |
| 0:56.7 | We know that Marcus Aurelius had a temper. |
| 0:58.8 | He writes about it too much in meditations for us to conclude otherwise. |
| 1:03.9 | And yet there are no stories in the surviving literature or the annals of history, or |
| 1:08.3 | even from his enemies, about him losing his cool with people. |
| 1:12.8 | So what happened? |
| 1:14.0 | Did he just stuff those feelings down? |
| 1:17.0 | No. |
| 1:18.0 | As we talked about, that's not what Aesthetic does. |
| 1:21.2 | Suppressing your emotions, especially anger, is like putting it on a credit card. |
| 1:26.0 | The charges seem small at first, the moment. |
| 1:29.0 | And a lot of times you may even forget about them. |
| 1:31.9 | But eventually the bill comes due with a list of charges laid out in front of you, an |
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