You Can’t Make Them Appreciate It |The Most Important Thing You Can Do Every Day
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🗓️ 9 January 2024
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
You do a lot. You try hard. You hold yourself to high standards—higher anyway, than most people. You’re not exactly a reincarnation of Cato but still, you’re doing great.
But do people appreciate this?
Not really. Not nearly enough.
But as we’ve said before, appreciation and recognition is not a thing we control. It’s not something that’s up to us. The line from that play about Cato, the one the Founders were so fond of, reminds us that we can’t demand a good reputation but we can deserve one. So it goes for appreciation.
Besides, Marcus Aurelius would remind us that this appreciation and recognition is “the third thing”—the thanks on top for a person simply doing what needed to be done, as a parent, as a leader, as a human being. We don’t need that. It’s extra.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast where each day we read a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you in your everyday life. |
| 0:11.0 | On Tuesdays we take a closer look at these stoic ideas, how we can apply them in our |
| 0:16.1 | actual lives. Thanks for listening and I hope you enjoy. |
| 0:19.9 | You can't make them appreciate it. You do a lot. You try hard, you hold yourself to high standards, higher anyway than most people. You're not exactly a reincarnation of Cato, but still you're doing great. But do people appreciate this? Not really, not nearly enough. But as we've said before, appreciation and recognition is not a thing we control. |
| 0:42.6 | It's not something that's up to us. |
| 0:44.6 | That line from that play about Cato, the one the founders were so fond of, |
| 0:47.9 | it reminds us that we can't demand a good reputation, |
| 0:50.5 | but we can deserve one. |
| 0:52.4 | And so it goes for appreciation. |
| 0:55.0 | Besides, Mark Surrealis would remind us that this appreciation and recognition is the third thing, |
| 1:00.3 | the thanks on top for being a person simply doing what needed to be done as a parent, as a leader, as a human being. |
| 1:06.0 | We don't need that. It's extra. |
| 1:08.0 | So let us strive to be worthy of appreciation but indifferent to whether we get it. |
| 1:13.7 | Let's keep trying. |
| 1:14.8 | Let's keep holding ourselves to those standards. |
| 1:17.4 | Let's make Marcus and Cato and ourselves proud. |
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