What Is Stoicism? A Beginner's Guide to the Philosophy That Won't Die
Stoicism gets a bad rap. People think it means being emotionless. A robot. It doesn’t. The Stoics had a simple insight: most of your suffering comes from wanting to control things you can’t control. Your boss is unreasonable. Traffic is terrible. Your team lost. Someone said something cruel about you online. None of that is up to you. What is up to you? How you respond. What you do next. Where you put your attention....