Don’t Be A Snob

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2:19Don't be a snob. Because of the work we've done, because of the study, because of the experiences, we know. We know what's right. We know what's possible. We know how things should go. The problem, as we've said before, is that it's very easy to forget that the Stoics believed only in self-discipline. In F. Scott Fitzgerald's wonderful short story, The Four Fists, which we wrote about recently for very different reasons, Fitzgerald has a scene where a particularly distinguished young gentleman gets in an argument with a short-tempered but otherwise decent workman. In the end, the workman bristles at being judged and attacks the gentleman, which serves as a well-deserved wake-up call for a guy who had long been convinced of his superiority to everyone else.

3:04Eventually, this mistake about the workman influenced his entire attitude, Fitzgerald writes. Snobbishness is, after all, merely good breeding grown dictatorial. So Samuel's code remained, but the necessity of imposing it upon others had faded out in a certain gutter. We should take note that the Stoics repeatedly spoke against taking on errors. Zeno and Epictetus' best one-liners are about puncturing the pretensions of their students. And Marcus Aurelius was beloved, one historian writes, because his strictness was limited solely to himself. It's great that you've done this work. It's great that you've learned so much.

3:45It's great that you have a strong code and set of standards. That doesn't give you the right to lord it over anyone else. It's your code. It's for self-discipline. And we forget this at our peril. You know, discipline is destiny is about discipline. but that very specific kind of discipline. Self-discipline. It's about the power of self-control. And often when I sign the book, and I've been signing a bunch of them for the holidays, I underline self a couple of times. It's self-discipline. This isn't about lording yourself, your standards, your stoicism about other people. It's about being the master of yourself.

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