Stoic Coffee Break
63 - Giving Away Your Control
Mar 12, 2018
The podcast discusses the importance of control and the negative impact of valuing external factors. Focusing on what we can control allows us to live a life of choice and freedom.
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- Valuing things outside our control reduces our control over our lives and leads to unnecessary unhappiness and stress.
- Assigning the appropriate value to external things helps us maintain control over our own lives and avoid compromising our principles.
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The importance of focusing on what you can control
Focusing on what you can control is crucial because it helps to avoid unnecessary unhappiness and stress. By trying to control things beyond your control, you become less effective in solving problems and allow external factors to dictate your life. Various philosophies, such as Buddhism and Christianity, highlight the concept of suffering caused by attachment to external things. Valuing external factors too highly can lead to compromising principles and losing happiness when those things are lost. Taking time to evaluate what external things you value and how much control they have over you can help you regain control of your life.
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