There Will Always Be People Who Don’t Get It | Hasan Minhaj Tests Ryan Holiday’s Stoic Knowledge

Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key Stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. There will always be people who don't get it. Do you think everyone understood why Cato was so alarmed about Caesar? Do you think everyone understood why Thracia or Agrippinus refused to bend the knee to Nero? Or why Rutilius Rufus made a legal martyr of himself when corrupt interests brought him up on false charges?

Of course they didn't. In fact, Rutilius's friends begged him to defend himself. Cato and Thracia and Agrippinus were seen as obstinate, alarmist, even annoying. People are busy. People are misinformed.

People have skewed priorities and conflicts of interests. They're not always going to understand. They're not always going to get it. Whether it's politics or business or personal, you just can't expect everyone to see what you see.

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