Resilience - The Stoics, They're Not Modern in This Regard

Resilience is a word that really means to sort of bounce a bit. You want to hold on to your character or backbone, but you still want to be able to take in the inflow of information in a way that is wise prudential. The stoics think you should think about infalliblism - we're all in the same cosmos and the gods are infallible so we should try to be infallible. So what does that mean in terms of resilience? Well, it means that if you're really, really resilient and you're really adaptive, then you have this kind of what they call mental reservation. That's pretty resilient because back to our earlier conversation, it means you