Lesson: The World is a Neutral Place

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In this short less, I recap a fundamental principle of Stoicism:

It is not events that disturb us, but our opinion of them.

While this may not be a new idea to you, if it hasn’t yet clicked into your day-to-day mode of operating in a deep way, it should be reminded often until it does.

This lesson is simple, but its implications are profound.

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