How to Take Positive Lessons From the Negative People in Your Life

It’s possible to take positive lessons from every person in your life, including those who you just plain don’t like.

Regardless of what we encounter in the world, we can find happiness through our own practice of virtue. (Drew Hays/ Unsplash

It’s possible to take positive lessons from every person in your life, including those who you just plain don’t like. It’s also possible to learn to not be moved by negative people, as did the ancient Stoics—accepting the world for what it is and finding sanctuary in self-improvement.

A guide on how to accomplish this was left to us by the second-century Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, who detailed his reflections on life in his handbook, “Meditations.”