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Feb 2019
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YOU Are Not The Problem

Daily Stoic | Wondery
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Epictetus’s most powerful line is about how it’s not things that upset us, but what we think about things that does all the damage. What he really meant is that our sense of what an obstacle or a disadvantage or a trial is—our subjective understanding—is more powerful than the objective reality.  For instance, if you tell yourself that you were failed by yo ... Show More
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