It’s Tempting To Tell Yourself This | All For One, One For All
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🗓️ 4 October 2024
⏱️ 11 minutes
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We can flatter ourselves that we’re essential, that we’re one of the good guys, that we’re preventing things from being worse. But are we? Or is that just what we want to believe?
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| 0:11.3 | I think the Stoics can get misinterpreted as masking or |
| 0:15.2 | hiding their emotions, but actually as we've talked about so many times here they |
| 0:18.8 | believed in the power of identifying, understanding, and directing your emotional impulses. |
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| 0:34.9 | build confidence in your uniqueness, |
| 0:36.6 | but also help you manage, understand, appreciate. |
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