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Do not waste the remainder of your life in thoughts about others, unless you are led to think of them for the common good.
Marcus Aurelius · Meditations · paraphrase
What it means today

Most of our mental energy is spent on gossip, judgment, comparison. The Stoic redirect: think of others only when it serves the work, not the ego.

Try this todayCatch yourself today thinking about someone in a way that serves no one, and redirect the thought.
Today’s questionIs my thinking about others serving the work, or feeding my ego?
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