240629 What I learned in my studies this morning 4

Today's Meditation(s):

Discourses, 3.16.7 (Waterfield)

This is my version of imposter syndrome about philosophy: that my explanations are so inept that I actively harm my listener by giving them bad ideas and that my own beliefs are at the point when I can easily divert myself onto a false path due to mistaken reasoning.

The worst thing that can happen to a good cause is, not to be skillfully attacked, but to be ineptly defended. ~ Frédéric Bastiat, Economic Sophisms (1845)

I have found myself out of my depth explaining Stoic principles or other philosophical ideas that I thought I'd known pretty well. But I have a much longer way to go to be competent with just the basics (up to me v not up to me, right use of impressions, following Nature, amor fati, etc.).