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Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast where each day we bring you a passage of ancient wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom every day life.

Each one of these passages is based on the 2000 year old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and women. For more you can visit us at DailyStoic.com.

Don't complain. Respond. We live in a time when people who hear opinions they dislike think that they can demand those opinions be unsaid or never repeated.

How dare you criticize blank? Why did you have to go and get all political? You've offended me. You're wrong. Shut up. Unfollow. Unsubscribe.

Almost never do these responses include what people who aren't in the right usually include in their offending opinions and evidence based reply, carefully considered facts and articulate counterargument.

Instead, they just want to shut down the conversation altogether. They want to bully the other person into conforming with their worldview as if yelling or being mean is a sufficient proxy for being right.

Needless to say, this is not how the Stoic responds to things they dislike or disagree with. Remember, Marcus Aurelius appreciated people with different points of view.

He didn't worry about being proven wrong because he thought that changing his mind was a good thing. Epic Titus wasn't easily offended either. He knew that it took two to tango and that it's impossible to be offended without our consent.

The Stoics were not bullies. Neither were they snowflakes. They trained in rhetoric. They trained in logic from childhood on. When they were challenged or when they disagreed, do you know what they did? They responded.

Cleverly, creatively, they responded with kindness and concern even to people who they believed were totally wrong or even arguing in bad faith because they knew that truth came from civil discussion.

They knew that there was no such thing as keeping politics out of it because life is politics. And they certainly didn't so identify with their political party or their beliefs or their reputations that they couldn't handle criticism or feedback or the prospect of having to change the former in light of the latter.

Which is what we need to go back to practicing. Lest we risk watching wisdom and growth and civility cease entirely right before our very eyes.

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