There Are Going To Be These Kinds Of People In The World

“When Barbara Bush died, a college professor in California decided to go on a tweetstorm to insult the newly deceased. For years, the Westboro Baptist Church has outdone themselves with offensive protests, including, in some cases, at the funerals of veterans. Trump mocked a disabled reporter. Give your neighbors a few posts on Nextdoor.com and you’ll quickly find that they’ve been harboring some dark thoughts they’ve been apparently dying to share.”Ryan explains that there will always be selfish, arrogant, and ignorant people around you, and why you must accept this to move forward, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast. ***If you enjoyed this week’s podcast, we’d love for you to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps with our visibility, and the more people listen to the podcast, the more we can invest into it and make it even better. Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/signupFollow Daily Stoic:Twitter: https://twitter.com/dailystoicInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic/Facebook: http://facebook.com/dailystoicYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/dailystoicSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info. 📢 Share | ⚙️ Manage Subscription

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• 0:04Ryan Holiday?

  Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom in everyday life. Each one of these passages is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at DailyStoic.com.

• 0:27Ryan Holiday?

  There are going to be these types of people in the world. When Barbara Bush died, a college professor in California decided to go on a tweet storm to insult the newly deceased. For years, the Westboro Baptist Church has outdone themselves with offensive protests, including, in some cases, at the funerals of veterans. Trump mocked a disabled reporter. "Give your neighbors a few posts on Nextdoor.com, and you'll quickly find they have been harboring some dark thoughts they've been apparently dying to share." What do we do when we bump into this kind of rudeness, this kind of mean, egregious stupidity? Well, if we take our cue from the media, our obligation is to freak out, get angry,

• 1:12Ryan Holiday?

  denounce them, show the world with our loud outrage that we are vastly superior to these people. That will make everything better, right? No, a Stoic knows that this is the way to misery and changes nothing. Marcus Aurelius writes in Meditations several times about the proper response to offensive, unpleasant behavior. And guess what? It's not matching tit-for-tat. It's not getting down in the mud with the pigs. If there's a chance you can have a decent conversation with someone doing wrong, he advises, of course, go for it. If you can change their mind, obviously, you should try. But if you can't, then you have to ask yourself, is a world without shameless, or stupid, or mean, or insensitive people possible? No, of course not.

• 1:56Ryan Holiday?

  Then don't ask the impossible, he says. There have to be some shameless people in the world. This is one of them. The same for someone vicious, or untrustworthy, or with any other defect. Remembering that the whole world class has to exist will make you more tolerant of its members. Shake your head, note the cautionary tale, move on, forgive, try to be better yourself, try to raise better kids yourself. That's all you can do.

• 2:24Ryan Holiday?

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