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Minimizing Pain, Maximizing Joy

Hidden Brain

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What Do You Have Control Over?

Stoic advice: Don't spend your time thinking about things you have no control over. Advice comes from epictetus, one of the four great roman st philosophers. Stoic will judge himself on whether he did most with what he had available to him. To measure success by higher standard is ' sheer lunacy'...

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