Hermes,

With all due respect, sometimes I think you go out of your way to read what I write uncharitably. I don’t take it personally, first because my philosophy doesn’t believe in being offended, and second because I suspect it isn’t meant to be personal. You, like a number of scientists, have a set of preconceptions about philosophy. Let me try to explain.

In this case, I was with you for the first three paragraphs, wondering when the punch would come. At paragraph four, it turns out:

> My concern is that the dichotomy of control directs our attention towards the things that we cannot control. <

Absolutely not! That’s the opposite of what the DoC does! Did I explain myself that badly? The DoC instructs to accept what we cannot control with equanimity while putting all our focus and energy on what we can control.

It is not by chance that modern Cognitive Behavioral Therapy emerged directly from Stoicism in the early ’60s, and more specifically from Epictetus and the Stoic that he most influenced, Marcus Aurelius.

We are allies, Hermes, not enemies.