Stoic Coffee Break

“Other people's views and troubles can be contagious. Don't sabotage yourself by unwittingly adopting negative, unproductive attitudes through your associations with others.”― EpictetusIt’s important to be careful about the ideas we entertain.Because the ideas we hold determine who we areHow we show up in the worldHow we treat othersLet’s take money for example.If you hang around people that think that money is the measure of a person, you will treat people differently than someone that doesn’t.If think that that people who are poor are lazy and deserve what they get, then you’re more likely to treat them poorly.If we think that rich people are more deserving because they are rich, then we may treat them better simply because we assume they have more value.If you spend any amount of time watching any political news media, you’d think that the end of civilization was happening because of one side or the other.I had a good friend in college that used to listen to right wing talk radio fairly often. I’d known hi