Trying to Appear Wise is Unwise
The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks
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Many of us are interested in philosophy and self-improvement not for the purpose of becoming wiser. The ancient stoics saw that this desire to get the approval of other people is actually a threat to true wisdom. With the age of social media, we can spend hours each day obsessing over how other people perceive us. We take those likes as being significant. We mean something.
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