Marcus Aurelius on Difficult People: The Stoic Morning Practice That Ends Grudge-Keeping
Every day is staffed with difficult people — the credit-taker, the goalpost-mover, the unsolicited opinion — and the first casualty is usually your composure. Marcus Aurelius wrote a morning sentence that ends grudge-keeping before it starts; this is the full treatment: the ignorance thesis, philostorgia, the psychology that confirms it, the six mistakes, and a 7-day protocol.