I am blogging everyday (or nearly everyday) on The Daily Stoic.

This stoic is about judgements. We should filter external influences through our own judgements. Good and bad. We should use reason to accomplish this or our world will dive into chaos. This is where I struggle a bit with what is considered good reason and bad reason. What one person finds reasonable another finds unreasonable. I don’t know that there is an answer to that.

An example of bad reasoning that I recently went through was having a drink because I have a lot of alcohol in the house. This is something I’ve always sort of struggled with. I’ll drink because it’s there and because I need to get rid of it so I can start my journey down the path of not drinking as much. The thing is that I’m already on that journey so the reasoning is false. And maybe that’s the correct reasoning.