This is The One Thing You Don’t Accept

About to head over and pick my kids up from school, and after I do, I know what they're gonna ask. They're gonna go, hey. Can we go to Whole Foods? And I am going to say yes. One, because then, keeps them off their screens. But two, groceries are my responsibility in our household. And so, yeah, we usually swing by the Whole Foods headquarters, and, we get all our groceries for the week. My wife has, like, a bazillion dietary restrictions. Sometimes that can be tough, but not at Whole Foods. They got everything. Even for Valentine's Day, they got miles of chocolate dipped strawberries that I think we're gonna get. They got gluten free stuff. They got dairy free stuff. They got basically everything. And I usually pick her up flowers while I am there too. If you're looking for something for someone for Valentine's Day this year, Whole Foods has got bouquets and arrangements. They've got succulents. Sometimes I'll just bring home a plant. She always appreciates it. The point is, you can taste love all month at Whole Foods, and maybe you'll see me there here at Austin. You know what has also been crazy? Because it integrates with your Amazon account. When I pull up Amazon, I can see all the stuff that I ordered, which is always good to remember. Pull up my little Amazon in store code, get all my Prime benefits. It's lovely. Anyways, I'm off to Whole Foods, and you should too. Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, designed to help bring those four key stoic virtues, courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom into the real world. This is the one thing you don't accept. There's so much happening that's outside our control. There's stuff that's bigger than us, that predates us, may well outlive us. There's stuff that's happening far away. There's stuff that's happening that doesn't affect us. There's stuff that we just don't get a say about because nobody asked us and it won't make a difference. Most of this, the stoics tell us is stuff we'll have to come to terms with. We'll have to learn how to accept as painful and as humbling as that might be. Epictetus calls this the art of acquiescence, and it's not an easy thing to practice. Marcus Aurelius reminds himself that he has the power to have no opinion and to try to keep in mind that the world was not asking to be judged by him. And yet, do you know what these two men and the rest of the stoics did not accept, what they insisted on having opinions about? Injustice. They did not think it was right or wise to be silent or resigned to what was obviously wrong. Perhaps a better way to think about it is this, injustice, whether it's corruption or cruelty, is what we are saving our opinions and our objections for. Instead of complaining about the weather or our team losing this …