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74/365: Marcus Aurelius on others’ faults

When we try to dodge the land mines that others’ leave, we end up scurrying around to the beat of their drum. It’s an uncontrollable folly. We can’t predict and we can’t control their actions and their faults.

Only ours. And only our reaction.

It’s better to jot a list of the holes we dig ourselves into, and fill them, rather than go around filling someone else’s holes.

At least with the former we can convince ourselves to stop digging.

Ask yourself today, are you going around trying to fill others’ financial holes?