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This will make you stupid.

It doesn't matter how smart you are, it doesn't matter where you studied, it doesn't matter how much you have accomplished.

In the moment, if you can't control your emotions, you will be stupid.

Your excitement will blind you to obvious problems.

Your anxiety will distract and consume you. Your lust and envy will make you rash and reckless.

Your anger? This is one of the passions that the Stilics were most worried about because anger makes you dangerous.

People think that the Stilics were most worried about because anger makes you dangerous. People think that the Stoics were emotionless, but as we've said before, this is quite wrong. The Stoics were human,

so they had emotions. They just also tried to layer a certain self-awareness, wisdom on top of

these emotions. As we emblazoned on our popular daily stoic medallion,

the stoics knew that they needed pause at reflecta to pause and reflect. You have the emotion

and then you have to ask yourself, is this helpful? You have the impulse and then you have to

ask yourself, is this really the best idea?

And if you don't do this, you will get in trouble.

You will make needless mistakes.

You will make yourself stupid.

And the idea of the pause and reflect medallion, I have one here in my pocket right now,

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