Cultivate a Stoic ‘Indifference’ to Politics

Darius Foroux
Forge
3 min readNov 3, 2020

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Most of us spend a lot of time reading, talking, and thinking about politics. While we can make an impact by voting and supporting our candidates and causes, we need to be aware of our limitations as well.

Consider: how does it benefit you to internalize stress about things you don’t control? To a Stoic, “indifference” means that none of the external things that happen to us are…

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Darius Foroux
Forge

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