BONUS | A Reality Check From Ryan
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You think you're the first person to live in political dysfunction? You think you're the first person to live in a time when it feels like the world is falling apart? You think you're the first person to live in a time when people are shitty to each other, when there's demagogues in power, when it feels like stuff is falling apart. No, you weren't. The ancient stoics lived in the time of Nero. You know, Socrates, he didn't live in the golden age of Athens, he lived in the time of thirty tyrants. He lived through a great power conflict. People have always lived in difficult times, but you know what they figured out? They figured out you gotta focus on what's in your control. You gotta figure out how to not let the assholes make you
An asshole. You gotta do good. where you can you gotta remind yourself what's important. You can't follow every news story, you can't be distracted by every outrage. You can't extrapolate everything into the end. Of the world. You have to ride it out. You have to focus.
You have to stay good and stay decent and then you gotta make a positive difference where you can. You can't give up hope. You have to stand strong. And you have to realize in times like these that there have always times like these. got through it and you will get through it.
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