00:00One of the foundations of Stoicism is that even if you have no control over most events
00:03and the storms that life will send your way,
00:05Even though everything can collapse beneath your feet at any moment, you can lose your job, you can lose
00:09Your partner, you could lose your health
00:11the only thing you will always be free from.
00:13If there's one thing we're free to do, it's to choose how we react.
00:20Your thoughts, your actions, your state of mind.
00:23Lord, grant me.
00:24You can't control what people think of you.
00:26The serenity of accepting what I cannot change.
00:28You cannot control your past, just as you cannot control storms or earthquakes.
00:32earth.
00:32The stuffing to change what it can be.
00:34For Epic Tets, what truly makes us unhappy is our thoughts, not the situations themselves.
00:38-same.
00:39And enough discernment to know the difference.
00:41Personally, what helps me keep moving forward is seeing life as an adventure, as chapters in a series.
00:45from a book,
00:46like the narrative arcs of a series or anime.
00:48Because when I'm at rock bottom, I tell myself that this is the arc where I must
00:50to climb back up the slope.
00:51If we had to wait for everything to go well in life to experience a little joy,
00:55We would be completely enslaved by circumstances.
00:58So, when things happen that are particularly hard to take?
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