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Finding Calm – Chapter 3 from Nancy Sherman’s “Stoic Wisdom”

The Daily Stoic

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Stoic Self Control - What Do We Control?

Stoic self control begins by drawing a line between our psychological faculties and what lies outside. Epictetus famously opens the incaridian this way: Some things in world are up to us, while others are not up to us. With effort and choice, we can turn our gaze inward to monitor stubborn patterns of attention through a modern stoic lens. These might include cognitive or epistemic biases.

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