The Gift of Understanding What's Going on Underneath the Surface Level Behavior

"I am a spectacularly optimistic catastrophist. I think things are going to go great until they don't, and then we're going to figure it out," he says. "When I'd like to be a good person when things aren't looking too good, I'm really good in a catastrophe." The Stoics' idea of understanding what's going on beneath the surface with people is one of his favorite parts of stoicism.