How to Control Your Happiness

Authentic happiness is always independent of external conditions. The things that are happening outside of you can't control your happiness. You shouldn't be a relying on external things falling in your favour to feel happy. Yet's easier said than dome because we are, just as human species, always just comparing status with one another. We look at those and think, men, those people are amazing. I wish i could be just like them. But that doesn't actually necessarily mean they're happy. So epictets te sand that sometimes maybe you need to forego fame or fortune if you want to go towards the true goal, which should be happiness.