Is This Really An Obstacle? | Reduce Wants, Increase Happiness
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🗓️ 24 February 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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We choose what truly counts as an obstacle. We have the power.
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| 1:49.2 | For more, visitdailystoic.com. 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. |
| 2:14.6 | What he really meant is that our sense of what an obstacle or a disadvantage or a |
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