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Speaker 1: Yes, Yes, I am Dramas And this is the Street

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Speaker 1: Stoic Podcast, bringing your daily dose of timeless stoic philosophy

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Speaker 1: remix for the hip hop generation. Now, with that in mind,

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Speaker 1: let's get things started with your daily shot of inspiration.

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Speaker 1: Now today we are going to be talking all about

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Speaker 1: the stoic idea of practicing resilience, but particularly when it

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Speaker 1: comes to the haters in our lives, because sadly everybody's

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Speaker 1: got one. Anybody who's trying to do something is always

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Speaker 1: going to have some naysayer in the background telling them

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Speaker 1: why they can't do something, critique and everything they do.

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Speaker 1: And if we're not careful, if we are not mentally strong,

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Speaker 1: these people can easily chip away at the confidence that

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Speaker 1: we need to get our stuff done at the end

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Speaker 1: of the day. Right. And I love this record from

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Speaker 1: Lil Wayne Love Me a Hate Me and the line

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Speaker 1: that he says in it, you can love me or

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Speaker 1: hate me, I swear it won't make me or break me.

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Speaker 1: And point blank he's saying, you don't affect me, your

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Speaker 1: opinion of me, does it make me, nor does it

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Speaker 1: break me, declaring he's the one in power. Right, Obviously,

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Speaker 1: this is easier said than done. If you have people

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Speaker 1: talking bad about you, it's frustrating. You have people making

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Speaker 1: up lies about you, people viewing you differently than you

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Speaker 1: see yourself, or viewing you in a way that you

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Speaker 1: know is not truly accurate to who you are and

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Speaker 1: what makes you the incredible person that you are. But

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Speaker 1: I think when we take the emotion out of it,

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Speaker 1: when your rational mind thinks about this, the reality is

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Speaker 1: yet this person's opinion, it won't make you, nor will

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Speaker 1: it break you. They don't have that much control or

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Speaker 1: power over your life. Right, even the most powerful and

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Speaker 1: most influential people in this world, you're going to be

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Speaker 1: hard pressed to find one person who could truly end

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Speaker 1: your dreams or stand in the way of your goals,

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Speaker 1: you know, and not allow you to achieve them. Right.

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Speaker 1: And Seneca has a great quote about this where he says,

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Speaker 1: all cruelty springs from weakness. So I think that I

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Speaker 1: find to be very powerful when I see a negative

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Speaker 1: like that, right, I'll view it. At times they might

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Speaker 1: hit a nerve, right, they might say something and I'm

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Speaker 1: feeling like I'm going to go ahead and respond, But

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Speaker 1: I just have to remind myself where is this person

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Speaker 1: coming from, right, because it's not from a good place.

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Speaker 1: A happy and fulfilled person who is loving their life

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Speaker 1: is not going to waste time being in my comments

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Speaker 1: critiquing me for some stupid thing. That's first and foremost.

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Speaker 1: And I think that's a lot of what Seneca is

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Speaker 1: talking about. People who are cruel, people who are being

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Speaker 1: negative and trying to bring you down. All of that

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Speaker 1: is coming from their own internal wound somewhere. They see

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Speaker 1: something that you have, they want it, they don't have it. Therefore,

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Speaker 1: they're going to find a reason to hate on you

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Speaker 1: because it makes them feel better in some sort of way, right.

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Speaker 1: And I relate to this on so many levels. You know,

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Speaker 1: I think back to old jobs that I had, old

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Speaker 1: co workers, old friends, and sprinkled in amongst all of

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Speaker 1: those experiences throughout the course of my life, you know,

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Speaker 1: there are people along the way who were haters, people

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Speaker 1: who critiqued me when I went and tried something new,

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Speaker 1: People who you know, felt some type of way when

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Speaker 1: I surpassed them, people who felt some type of way

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Speaker 1: when I decided to go and try something new. And

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Speaker 1: at times it hurt because these were people that I

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Speaker 1: was close to, be it friendships that I had for years,

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Speaker 1: be it co workers, be it people that I may

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Speaker 1: have looked up to. Right, Like, I've been lucky to

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Speaker 1: have met a plethora of people throughout the course of

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Speaker 1: my life, and you know, not all of those relationships

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Speaker 1: ended well, right. And I had to remind myself that

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Speaker 1: if somebody has something negative to say about me, if

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Speaker 1: they're taking shots at me, it's less about me and

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Speaker 1: more about their own ego and their own insecurities. Right,

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Speaker 1: Because again, if they were confident in themselves completely and

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Speaker 1: weren't worried about me, or weren't feeling some type of

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Speaker 1: way about me in regards to what it sort of

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Speaker 1: taking the time to address me in that way, right.

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Speaker 1: And I always try to take the high road with that.

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Speaker 1: I don't react. I don't publicly take shots at people.

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Speaker 1: You know. I'm not sitting here arguing with people, you know.

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Speaker 1: I try to always take the high road in knowing

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Speaker 1: that A it's not worth my time, but B nothing

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Speaker 1: that anybody says or does in regards to me is

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Speaker 1: going to affect the path that I'm on obviously, anybody

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Speaker 1: We're all human beings. We're going to have a nerve

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Speaker 1: get touched every once in a while. Right, But when

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Speaker 1: we slow down, we think about it from that rational brain.

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Speaker 1: Their cruelty is just a symbol of their weakness. They're

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Speaker 1: a hurt person trying to hurt other people. Right, So

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Speaker 1: you have to keep all that in mind and not

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Speaker 1: allow it to be something that you react to or

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Speaker 1: allow it to be something that deviates you from the

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Speaker 1: course of your life and all that you have planned

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Speaker 1: for yourself. Now, with that said, we've heard from lol Wayne,

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Speaker 1: we have heard from one of the stoics, Seneca. You've

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Speaker 1: heard a bit about how I relate to this. Now,

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Speaker 1: You a mantra for today. But first's take a quick

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Speaker 1: break and then we'll be right back. All right, So

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Speaker 1: today we've been talking about practicing resilience when it comes

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Speaker 1: to the haters in your life. We've heard from Low Wayne,

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Speaker 1: we have heard from one of the Stoic Seneca. You

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Speaker 1: have heard from myself. Now let's talk about how you

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Speaker 1: can make it your mantra for today. And I think

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Speaker 1: for me, one of the mindsets that has really really

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Speaker 1: helped me out a lot when it comes to not

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Speaker 1: being affected by other people's negativity and the things that

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Speaker 1: really have anything to do with you, and it has

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Speaker 1: everything to do with them. Once you can understand that,

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Speaker 1: and you're no longer taking it as a personal attack,

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Speaker 1: but instead just viewing it as somebody who is hurt

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Speaker 1: looking to alleviate their own pain. Obviously, it doesn't mean

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Speaker 1: that the cuts you know that they make you don't

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Speaker 1: feel them, that the words they say at times may

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Speaker 1: not trigger something any Right where are all humans, somebody

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Speaker 1: might say the right thing that triggers you in that moment.

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Speaker 1: But again, I think you have to take away their power.

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Speaker 1: You have to recognize that they have little to no

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Speaker 1: effect on you in a real way. Right, if you

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Speaker 1: can take your emotion out of it, that person has

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Speaker 1: zero effect on the course of your life. All we're

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Speaker 1: really trying to do when we create awareness around what's

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Speaker 1: of that awareness, I think creates buffer systems where we

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Speaker 1: the key. Right. It's not about becoming some emotionless zombie

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Speaker 1: healthy way to live. Right. I think the key again

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Speaker 1: is these buffers that we put in place that allow

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Speaker 1: us to be far more present, allow us to slow

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Speaker 1: for what they really are. Right where we can feel

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Speaker 1: that emotion that happens, that sort of instant kicking the gut,

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Speaker 1: but then that buffer kicks in and separates you from responding,

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Speaker 1: separates you from reacting to that particular situation or internalizing

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Speaker 1: it in a way that ends up being detrimental to

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Speaker 1: you and your mental health or your progress in whatever

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Speaker 1: it is that you're trying to do. Right, and a

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Speaker 1: recap all we've been talking about today, the words of

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Speaker 1: low Wayne right, letting people know they can love them,

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Speaker 1: they can hate them, It won't make him and it

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Speaker 1: won't break him. Right, their feelings about him do not

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Speaker 1: actually have a real impact on his life. He's the

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Speaker 1: one in control. He's the one making the moves, and

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Speaker 1: everybody else is sort of just a bystander, right, and

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Speaker 1: Seneca reminding you that all cruelty springs from weakness, right.

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Speaker 1: Anybody who's being negative, they're being negative from some sort

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Speaker 1: of wound or trauma that is unresolved for them. They

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Speaker 1: have pain that they need to let out, and unfortunately

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Speaker 1: you have found yourself in the crosshairs of that. But again,

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Speaker 1: it means nothing about you and even myself. When I

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Speaker 1: think back to some of the moments that were dark

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Speaker 1: as a result of people that I cared about taking

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Speaker 1: shots at me or turning their back on me, the

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Speaker 1: results are I'm still exactly where I wanted to be.

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Speaker 1: They didn't slow me down, they didn't stop me from

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Speaker 1: doing that. Their opinions of me and maybe their lack

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Speaker 1: of belief in my abilities had zero effect on what

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Speaker 1: I've been able to accomplish in my career, and I

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Speaker 1: just have to keep reminding myself of that. Their opinions

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Speaker 1: literally have zero effect on my path as long as

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Speaker 1: I don't allow them to be something I internalize and

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Speaker 1: as a result, don't allow them to be something that

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Speaker 1: makes me deviate from my course of action right now.

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Speaker 1: With that said, thank you so much for checking out

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Speaker 1: The Street Stole Podcast. Do your best to apply these

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