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

The Daily Stoic

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Stoic Mental Preparation

Stoic mental preparation involves working one's way up to tough tests that we might face. To think that it averts grief suggests both the worst parts of stoicism and psychologically unsound ways of dealing with loss. Epictetus chrystippus was right to say as long as the future is uncertain to me, i always hold to those things which are better adapted to obtaining the things in accordance with nature.

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