The Daily Stoic - This Is Why You Can’t Care What People Think

Episode Date: July 21, 2020

"It seems silly: Cato, one of Rome’s most courageous and steadfast leaders, had to practice wearing ratty clothes and walking barefooted and bareheaded. He had to gird himself for it. For defying convention and ignoring the people glancing askew. It doesn’t just seem silly, it seems a little dramatic. How much courage should that really take?"Ryan talks about why wearing a mask during the pandemic is more important than how you look wearing one in today's Daily Stoic Podcast.***If you enjoyed this week’s podcast, we’d love for you to leave a review on Apple Podcasts. It helps with our visibility, and the more people listen to the podcast, the more we can invest into it and make it even better.Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/signupFollow @DailyStoic:Twitter: https://twitter.com/dailystoicInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/dailystoic/Facebook: http://facebook.com/dailystoicYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/dailystoicSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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greatest men and women. For more, you can visit us at dailystowach.com. This is why you can't care what people think. It seems silly to read that Cato had to practice wearing ratti clothes and walking barefooted and bareheaded. How much courage does that take? To defy convention or people glancing a skew? Well, it turns out it takes a lot. Look at the backlash that's going on right now in the United States. People are afraid, not of the pandemic,

but of wearing masks because they think they'll look stupid because they don't want to look different or change how people act around them because they think it'll look stupid, because they don't wanna look different or change how people act around them, because they think it'll be inconvenient or uncomfortable. There are some folks on the extreme end of the spectrum who deep down are so afraid of what other people will think of them, that they're trying to label the people who do wear masks as cowards. Even in the early days of the virus,

it's likely that health and government authorities were reluctant to advise mass use for fear of looking like they were overreacting or for fear of freaking people out. Meanwhile, over at the Atlantic, we have the facts. They write, model show that if 80% of people wear masks that are 60% effective, easily achievable with cloth, we can get to an effective R rate of less than one. That's enough to halt the spread, the disease. Life presents us with all sorts of dilemmas. Every choice we make has a risk. Ask a question you can learn, or possibly be thought of as dumb. Leave a steady job to start your own venture.

You could succeed or you could fail in front of everyone. Speak what you feel is the truth, and you can make a difference. Or you could get yelled at. Take safety precautions. You could protect yourself and your family, or you could look foolish. It would be wonderful if this weren't the case, if no right behavior, ever drew judgment or raised eyebrows, but that's not how the world works. It was a fact of life in ancient Rome, and it's a fact of life in the modern world, which

is why you have to cultivate real indifference to what other people say or think. It's why you have to practice swimming upstream and against reservations, even against your own. You cannot care what other people think. You have to do what's right and what's smart and wouldn't you rather be laughed at. Then dead. Don't forget to subscribe to this podcast on iTunes or your favorite podcast app.

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