It Can’t Think About You | How to Be a Better Friend, According to the Stoics
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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. Yeah. Can't think.
About you. It does so much damage. It sets us back so much. It's something we desperately don't want to happen. So yeah, we think about it a lot. We fret about it a lot. We dread it a lot. But it's worth remembering, as we said recently about toxic people, that these things aren't thinking about you at all. Just as a Nero is not thinking about Seneca, the economy
It's not thinking about you. This drought is not scheming to disrupt your plans. The airport isn't trying to make you miss your flight unless you're meeting and therefore screw up your career. The highway doesn't care. Neither does gravity or cancer. These are impersonal forces. They are inanimate objects. This is fortune and fate.
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