I'm hardly an authority but I've been doing daily stoic journaling for about 9 months. Stoicism isn't about passivity, though I can see how people think that, i

I'm hardly an authority but I've been doing daily stoic journaling for about 9 months. Stoicism isn't about passivity, though I can see how people think that, it's about 1. Accepting your circumstances 2. Understanding what you can and can't control 3. not having your happiness be dependent on outcomes but rather your actions. So in your cab example you could say something to the cab driver. You could simply get out of the cab and get another. You could let the cab driver take you the long way and pay more because it isn't worth the hassle. Any would be an appropriate stoic response. The unstoic response would be to sit and seethe or complain about it later. At it's core stoicism seems to be just a system of empowered decision making. Or at least that's how I use it.