On relationships

Begin the morning by saying to yourself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial. All these things happen to them by reason of their ignorance of what is good and evil.

Marcus Aurelius · Meditations II.1

What it means

Expect difficult people before you meet them, and their behavior stops being a personal ambush.

Carry it today

Before a hard interaction today, decide in advance how the calm version of you responds.