The practice of the three stoic disciplines will always help us and guide us in our actions. Marcus wrote, quote, say to yourself at the start of the day, I shall meet with meddling, ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious and unsociable people. The inner citadel created through the discipline of ascent and the discipline of desire prepares us for action in a tumultuous world filled with humans who are often irrational, selfish, and cantankerous. Stoics do not retreat from society to achieve equanimity. Here we begin to put the equanimity that we gain through thecipline of ascent and desire to the test in the arena of human life where fate does not