The best way to avoid uncomfortable situations and people thinking less of you is just to avoid life. But then you say, well, whose life is it anyway? Who's leading this dance? Is it you or other people? Then you've just given all your power away. And so the third bit is you talk about accepting the process and dawning the kip. Marcus Aurelius, having no prior military experience, had to dawn the cape and the boots go out there and lead 13 legions into battle like he knew what he was doing.
My guest today is Kasey Pierce. Kasey is a writer/editor and Stoic columnist from Detroit. She began her career in indie horror and sci-fi, working with publishers like Source Point Press. Shortly after beginning to blog about Stoic philosophy, she was called back to her comic roots and received the opportunity to freelance content edit for Donald Robertson for his graphic novel, "Verissimus: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius". Her most current work is editing for CBT practitioner and Stoicism author Tim Lebon for "365 Ways to Be More Stoic", in which she wrote some original content. Her forthcoming work is coauthoring a book with CBT practitioners and Stoicism authors, Scott Waltman and R. Trent Codd, "How to Think Like Socrates".
Check out Kasey's range of excellent articles on her medium profile.
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