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This is why you can't care what people think it seems silly to read the Cato had to practice wearing ratty clothes and walking barefooted in bareheaded. How much courage does that take to defy convention or people glancing ask you? 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.
Front or change how people act around them because they think it will 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 mask use for fear of looking like they were overreacting or for fear freaking people out. Meanwhile over at the Atlantic we have the
Facts they write models show that if 80% of people wear masks that are 60% effective easily achievable with cloth we can get to an effective our rate of less than 1 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
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, and if you don't get the daily Stoke email go to daily stoic.com /
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