BONUS: Toxic Masculinity, Cancel Culture & Politics

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast. Designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom. Into the real world. Hi, Ryan. Um I wanna say that your book, Obstacles the Way, helped me finish my master's thesis. Okay, so I always And

Thank you for that. Um, I want to ask you about when you know something or someone is like annoying you or whatever, but you can't accept that they don't maybe agree with you, how to kind of Have peace with that and not let it kinda take your own piece away. One of my favorite quotes from the stoics, it's in Meditations. Mark Schmidt says remember you always have the power to have no opinion. He says things are not asking to be judged by you.

Now imagine this is being said by a person whose opinion was literally law. Ті а на лиф і деф поу. And here he is reminding himself to live and let live, that he doesn't have to let things bother him. He doesn't have to try to change everything. He can just Let some things be. And now this sounds like not much of a power. You always have the power to have no opinion. But how many people do we know that have no such power? Right? I mentioned Elon Musk earlier. Elon Musk is a

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