Pause and Reflect…Before You Regret | When Someone Is Rude, Respond Like This
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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. Pause and reflect before you regret. At the moment it felt like a good idea. When you were upset, it made sense. While you were
Anxious it seemed like it would help, but now, afterwards? Not so much. The flaws are obvious, the consequences are clear, the hangover is real, the stakes no longer seem so high. Pause et reflect. You pause and you reflect.
Before you do something you regret. This is the basis of stoicism. We have an impression, we have an impulse, we have a provocation, and before we act we should consider it. We ask ourselves, how is this really going to go? How is this actually going to play out?
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