The Biggest Mistake People Make

Stoicism For Everyone Podcast · Jul 13, 2026 · 9m

The biggest mistake I made happened slowly, over years, without me even noticing it happening. It was not a dramatic mistake. There was no explosion, no confrontation, no moment of clarity where everything fell apart. The mistake was quieter. It was the mistake of thinking that finding beauty in contradictions meant finding a way to make the pain stop. I spent months, maybe years, approaching this practice as a problem-solving technique. I thought that if I could just learn to hold both truths, the discomfort would eventually fade. The tension would resolve. I would find a state of peaceful…