Stoicism: control what you can, release the rest

Stoicism: the event is neutral; your story about it isn’t.

Founded in Athens around 300 BC, Stoicism teaches that events are neutral and your judgments about them are where suffering lives. It was philosophy as daily practice - closer to training than theory.

Where this thought can lead

↳ Athens: the argument that never ended
Stoicism didn’t appear from nowhere - Athens was running a centuries-long argument about how to live.
↳ Memento mori: remember you will die
The Stoics most famous exercise: deliberately remembering you’re going to die.
↳ Modern therapy has Stoic DNA
The idea that your interpretations cause your feelings got rediscovered by 20th-century psychology.
↳ How a phrase becomes cultural memory
Tangent - you drifted from what Stoicism says to how it got so weirdly popular.
↳ The dichotomy of control
Everything labeled "Stoic" runs on one sorting rule. See the engine and the rest of the school assembles itself around it.
↳ Broicism: when Stoicism hit the gym
Between Marcus Aurelius and your feed, something happened to Stoicism. The gap between the original and the merch is its own subject.

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