The Stoics would say that we were put here to work with other people—that the ability to collaborate and connect and compromise is in fact one of the things that makes us human. No one is saying this won’t be infuriating. That it won’t require immense discipline and self-control even to be in the same room with people you’ll have to work with—but that’s the point, you’ll be in the room, working. Not outside, yelling.
