If Stolicism can address values, I think that's partly why it's able to transform us at a deeper level and a more permanent level. Let me back up and talk about something really simple and fundamental and expand from there. One of the fundamental concepts in all Greek philosophy, certainly in Socrates and in the Stoics, so basic is the distinction between appearance and reality. The Greeks, early Greek thinkers, realized that appearances can be misleading and they were very concerned with this. For example, someone might appear to be your friend but if you dig deeper, you might realise that they are behaving like an enemy and reality. And what appears at first to be harmful might actually be beneficial on