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Author Nancy Sherman on Building Resilience and Living Well | What Are You Making Up About This? That’s The Question.

The Daily Stoic

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The Daily Stoic Podcast - What I Make Up About This

It's not things that upset us, epocteta said, it's our judgment about things. It's what we hear, not what people say, that is the problem. So whatever you think about to day, think about that whenever you feel triggered or misunderstood or attacked. Are you just making it up? Is it likely that they were saying anything close to what you've heard? Or is your hearing precisely the source of the conflict? Because it usually is.

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