Why Are You Surprised?
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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast. Designed to help bring Those four key stoic virtues courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom are Into the real world. Why are you surprised?
Your boss, who is a jerk. Pull the jerk move. Your mother, who is passive aggressive, said something passive aggressive. That dishonest politician lied. That loud neighbor was loud.
The surprising thing about all this is that you were surprised. How could you not have seen this coming? That sort of person was bound to do that, Mark Strelius writes in Meditations. You might as well resent a fig tree for secreting juice. Why are you letting it catch you off guard? Why are you taking it personally?
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