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

The Daily Stoic

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Pre-Rehearsal - How to Prevent Anxiety

Stoic idea of preventive exposure and training in what we focus on in our environment is prescient. Reducing future distress, comes at the cost of increasing present distress. Many ways of being prepared are far from irrational or overwrought. They are what good people do to take care of themselves and others. In the case of service members, many replaced flukish luck with failed moral agency. But moral conscientiousness needn't be anxious.

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