A Daily Stoic email arrived in my inbox within the last week that stuck with me. You can browse the Daily Stoic website here, and even sign up for their daily emails if you might find joy and meaning in them. The one of which I’m speaking was a shortened version of the larger interview with Robert Greene, the author of The Laws of Human Nature among several other books you can find listed on that link.
In the short email that I received, it challenged me to look at the entire human species from a biological perspective at the beginning of our lives, and understand how we all started out the same. We all started with a clean slate, no experiences, and no memories. We all start out experiencing the world as we have been since our prehistoric ancestors.
So, what is it that makes some of us go into the voting booth today and select one way, and others select another way? What is it that brings that anger of the other side’s opinions and beliefs to the forefront? All of us have experienced life and have held onto memories of those experiences differently.
It is not because someone is stupid, irrational, or weak minded. Their unique experiences have led them to this moment in their life much differently than yours have. Should we be angry at them for it? A stoic would suggest not.
Think stoically on this election day.
The Shaw Show 
This is such an important point. We’ve all had unique life experiences–unique paths that have led us to the present moment. People are mostly doing their best with the information they have.
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