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Dr. Nate Zinsser on Restraining Ego and Building Confidence

The Daily Stoic

CHAPTER

The Last Stoic Idea

Epictetus isis literally the first stoic idea, which is, you have to accept the facts on the ground as they are. The 300 spartans don't go to thermopylae complaining about what a statistical disadvantage they are at wy. Who would volunteer for that kind of suicide mission? Except somebody who is ridiculously mentally tough to think not about what's going to happen in two weeks, but what are we going to do right now?"

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