The Daily Stoic - You Can’t Just Stuff It Down

Episode Date: December 28, 2021

Ryan explains why a Stoic should process and deal with their emotions, on today’s Daily Stoic Podcast.→ We hope you join us in the 2022 New Year New You Challenge. It kicks off in a little over a week. It’s 3 weeks of actionable challenges, presented in an email per day, built around the best, most timeless wisdom in Stoic philosophy. Just go to https://dailystoic.com/challenge to sign up before sign ups end on January 1st!Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: http://DailyStoic.com/emailFollow us: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, and FacebookSee 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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histories, greatest men and women, for more you can visit us at dailystowup.com. You can't just stuff it down. We know that Marcus Aurelius had a temper. He writes about it too much in meditations for us to conclude otherwise. And yet there are no stories in the surviving literature or the annals of history or even from his enemies about him losing his cool with people. So what happened?

Did he just stuff those feelings down? No. As we talked about, that's not what Aesthetic does. Suppressing your emotions, especially anger, is like putting it on a credit card. The charges seem small at first in the moment, and a lot of times you may even forget about them. But eventually the bill comes due with a list of charges laid out in front of you, and interest attached. William Blake explains this in his famous poem, A Poison Tree. I was angry with my friend. I told my

wrath my wrath that end. I was angry with my foe. I my wrath, my wrath, that end. I was angry with my foe. I told it not. My wrath did grow. The key to stoicism is precisely this processing and dealing with your emotions. Marcus didn't fly off the handle and he didn't pretend that he was never upset. He wrote about it. He talked to the people he was upset with. He tried to put himself in their shoes He tried to remember as he said all the times He had acted like they had but most of all he tried to take his emotions Be they anger or fear or jealousy and in processing

Transform them into love and to empathy and to compassion into patience and understanding. And this is what we must do. We can't stuff it down. We have to face it. Speak up about it. Deal with it. We have to choose not to be poisoned by our emotions, or poison anyone else with them. To man more of yourself in 2022, and one of the ways you can do that is by joining us in the Daily Stoic New Year New U challenge. All you have to do is go to dailystoic.com slash challenge

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