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wisdom designed to help you find strength, insight, and wisdom, everyday life.

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2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of history's greatest men and

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This is what's making you so stressed. Being a human and stress seem to just go together.

Anxiety and concern, they follow too. There's always something we're worried about.

If we didn't perform well on this presentation, it could mean we won't get the promotion.

You felt a little tired yesterday and this morning we have a cough. Is this something serious?

Oh no, we can't afford to get sick right now. We're juggling multiple responsibilities. We're making sure we take

care of our physical and mental health. We're struggling to achieve all of our goals. We have bills to pay and

mouths to feed. We are sensitive to the slightest changes in our environment. We are nervous about the

slightest clouds on the horizon. It's a modern affliction, but it's also always been this way.

Not that it has to be. I see that my child is ill. That's what I see, but I don't want to see that he's in any

danger, Marcus Rialis writes and meditations. He was talking about stopping that very human, very natural

extrapolation that we all do. And extrapolation is a nice word here

because more often than not, it's better described as catastrophizing. His advice to himself as a leader, as a parent,

as a philosopher was to stick with the first impression adding no commentary of your own from within.

Meaning the cough can just be a cough, the subpar presentation can just be a

single data point. Falling short today, it does not have to mean that everything is falling apart.

Stop torturing yourself.

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