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Daily Stoic Sundays: How Seneca Overcame Stress
The Daily Stoic
Seneca's Nightly Review
Seneca stressed about all the things that we stress about. He took plunges in freezing water, fasted or ate cheapest and scantiest fare. Seneca made it a priority to practise what he called voluntary discomfort. It is precisely in times of immunity from care that the soul should toughen itself beforehand for occasions of greater stress. This is what modern cognitive and behaviora therapists now call exposure therapies.
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