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320. Massimo Pigliucci — How to Live a Good Life and Create a Just Society
The Michael Shermer Show
You Know What I'm Going to Say When Something Bad Happens?
I try to reframe whatever happens like, Oh, I'm stuck here in traffic or something like that as an opportunity. A couple of small examples: I used to get pissed off when somebody would pass me and tell one of my cycling buddies said, Hey, sure, there goes your rabbit. Let him get the ticket. So now I like it when some guy zips by them. And maybe you're going to learn something that you haven't learned before. You wouldn't not have learned otherwise from the experience. In fact, Marcus Aurelius puts in a very similar way. He says that the obstacle becomes the way. Which is actually a very daoist way of looking
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