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How Emerson Can Help You Become a Stoic Nonconformist

The Art of Manliness

CHAPTER

The Power of Fear

The more we know about our fears, the less control they have over us. Emerson was very big on the idea that what happens to us is the external life. So things happen to us and they pass. Whatever is impermanent doesn't have the lasting ability to disempower us or take away our joy for living.

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