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Each page has verified quotes, plain-English notes in a gentle or tough-love voice, flash cards, books and sounds.
StressStress usually comes from two places: what is happening, and what we tell ourselves about it.AnxietyAnxiety lives in the future.AngerSeneca wrote a whole three-book work on anger because it wrecked lives in his world as it does in ours.LonelinessLoneliness is not a flaw, and the Stoics did not treat it as one.FailureEveryone fails.MotivationThe Stoics did not wait to feel like it.OverthinkingThinking is useful until it turns into circling.RegretRegret is a useful signal that turns toxic when we replay it.RejectionBeing turned down, ignored or criticised stings in a very old part of us.FearFear is useful when it points at something real and exhausting when it does not.Things you can’t controlEpictetus opens his handbook by dividing the world in two: what is up to you and what is not.Overwhelm and burnoutWhen everything lands at once, the Stoic move is to shrink the frame: one hour, one task.Jealousy & envyEnvy is attention spent on someone else’s life.BurnoutPeople often picture the Stoics as grinding through everything.Self-doubtMarcus Aurelius ran an empire and still wrote notes to himself about doubt.Losing a jobLosing a job hits your money, your routine and your sense of who you are, all at once.
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