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How To Act

Practical Stoicism

How to Act Never Under Compulsion, Out of Selfishness, Without Forethought, With Misgivings

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Today's meditation is the fifth from book three. It reads as follows, how to act never under compulsion, out of selfishness, without forethought, with misgivings. Don't gussy up your thoughts. Separate the signal of importance from the noise of emotion and self-aggrandizement. The now is where and when everything we have control over is happening.

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