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Stoicism is something that has become popular again.

There's the Daily Stoic, which is a Twitter site.

There are a bunch of popular books about stoicism.

And I think the reason for that is that Stoics have a kind of formula for

developing resistance and also for developing certain kinds of detachments from worry and concern.

And one of their key strategies that they would advise us to adopt

is first to distinguish between what's in our control, what is it.

It's not as easy to do as they sometimes suppose it is,

but distinguish between what's in your control,

then what is it?

And then focus your efforts on what's in your control.

This is actually not a bad thing,

I'm not stoic, but it's not a bad thing to think about and reflect on

in your life. I don't know about you, but most of the things that have really troubled me kept me up

at night or kept me up when I wake up early in the morning and can't get back to sleep are things

over which I have very little control, and many of them are fictional

worries, worries that I kind of concocted in my head about things that I'm fearing that

if I'm actually being rational, there's very low chance of that happening.

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