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Minimizing Pain, Maximizing Joy

Hidden Brain

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Is There a Risk That Stoicism Can Transfor Over Into the Phenomenon of Blaming the Victim?

Stoic insight was most of the damage that they do to you is not the event itself, but your reaction to the event. And so what you need to do is figure out a way to keep that reaction within certain bounds. You known, if you look at people we admire such as martin luther king, for example, he refused to play the role of victim. He found a way to minimize the harm it did him personally. In that way, he could use the energy that he would have spent feeling beat down, feeling powerless,  to start a movement....

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