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231 | Stoicism

The Minimalists

CHAPTER

The Case Against Empathy

Stoicism is not about abolishing emotion, it's about trying to minimize the number of negative emotions and embracing the positive emotions. We can't eliminate all negative emotions, but we can choose to let them go. Why do we grasp so tightly to many of these negative emotions? There seems to almost be a comfort in feeling the negativity.

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