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That’s more Buddhist than Stoic. In Stoic terms, you pick something that has been or soon will be a challenge or potential setback, then you ask yourself: what, in this situation, is up to me, and not up to me? Making the two lists as long as possible. then you focus your attention on the first list and repeat to yourself that elements on the second list need to be accepted with equanimity.

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Figs in Winter
Figs in Winter

Written by Figs in Winter

by Massimo Pigliucci, a scientist, philosopher, and Professor at the City College of New York. Exploring and practicing Stoicism & other philosophies of life.

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