How Will You Respond?

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  So I just got back from two weeks in New Zealand and Australia. I was on tour for Daily Stoic Live and we stayed in two different places in Bondi Beach. I would wake up every morning, go for a long run, and it's been one of my favorite places for like a decade and a half. Actually, it made me think while I was there that the very first time that my wife and I went to Australia, part of how we paid for that trip was we listed our house on Airbnb while we were gone. That was something we would do back then, especially as I was making that transition from marketing, my corporate career to writing, is that when I would travel for talks, we would list our house on Airbnb. We had this little house in East Austin, and that's how we covered the mortgages. When we were gone, people would stay in it while we were out of town. If

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  you have space and you're going to be away, maybe that can be a memorable place for someone else to stay. Your home might be worth more than you think, and you can find out how much at Airbnb.com/host. Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help you bring those four key Stoic virtues: courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world.

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  You see it on the news every day. You see it in traffic. You see it on social media. People being awful, things falling apart, virtue not just in decline, but in an all-out rout. We don't control this, but as always, we control how we respond. Will it make us better or worse? Will we be implicated in the ugliness? The real harm Marcus Aurelius reminded himself in his own dark and ugly times was whether he allowed it to affect his character. Bad times can make things hard on us. Bad people can hurt us. But resentment, despair, revenge, these are choices that still belong to us. So too is the decision to remain decent, to do the right thing, to be

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  a small light in a dark room, as it's been said, or to carry the fire, as Cormac McCarthy writes in The Road. The election is not up to us. A collapse in public trust, public kindness, public responsibility, these things are not up to us, not as individuals, that is, although, of course, we all share blame collectively. As individuals, what is up to us is whether these bad times make us a bad person, whether hard events harden our hearts, whether the wrongs of the world make us do wrong. Every obstacle is a chance for us to do right, to be the person we are meant to be, that we're supposed to be, that the world needs us to be. So let's focus on that today.

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