If Only They Really Knew…

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3:03If only they really knew. Not everyone is going to like you, as we've talked about. There is no one, not even Marcus Aurelius, who was universally beloved during their lifetime or afterwards. It can be hard to accept this, but it's harder still sometimes the reasons that they dislike you. People judge us for where we come from, for what we look like, for our age, for our religion. They dislike us for the work we do. They dislike us for what they heard about the work that we do. They dislike us for real, legitimate reasons, mistakes we've made, stands we've taken, and totally made-up stuff. They project their own insecurities, their own issues onto us.

3:42They'll stick us with the consequences of their ignorance, their own poor comprehension skills, their own bad taste. Have you ever watched, as Kipling said, the truths you've spoken get twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools? It's a maddening, saddening thing. Epictetus, though, says that we should take all this with a smile. In fact, he joked that when we find ourselves criticized or disliked by some stranger, instead of trying to convert them or argue with them, we should just say to ourselves, if only they really knew me, they'd like me even less. That people dislike us for their made-up, ridiculous reasons shouldn't bother us.

4:18Superficial, baseless criticism is not what we need to concern ourselves with. Instead, let us focus on what we know we can improve on, where we are not meeting our own standards. And if there is any external feedback we take, any approval we seek, let it come from the people who know us well, who we admire. Epictetus would have taken it seriously if Musonius Rufus was upset with him, just like Marcus Aurelius would have never wanted to let Antoninus down. Everything else we can ignore.

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6:14The detours, where each adventure pulls you toward the next. And wrong turns to no right. So why would you ever take a tour when you could take a detour? Toyota Trucks.