When Have You Been That?

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• 0:05Ryan Holiday?

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• 0:55Ryan Holiday?

  When have you been that? That person you just can't stand? That person in traffic who won't get out of the way? That person on the airplane who keeps bumping your seat or whose stuff is spilling in your area? That person talking loudly on their phone at a restaurant or on the train? Ugh, right? Don't they realize how annoying they are? Probably not any more than you did when you were that person. And that's what we have to realize when there is someone who drives us nuts, that we are that someone to someone else, or have been at one time or another. In meditations, one of the things that Marcus really reminds himself to think of whenever someone does him wrong is all the times that he had acted like that. "We were talking on our phone because the call was important.

• 1:39Ryan Holiday?

  We were driving poorly because we were lost or we'd just gotten terrible news. We didn't know our jacket had fallen into someone else's space. We didn't mean to push anyone's buttons." Well, for the most part, all of this is true for everyone else, too. So let's give them the grace we give ourselves, and let's try to fix our own behavior before we judge anyone else too harshly.