You Don’t Control What Happens, You Control How You Respond

The most important practice in Stoic philosophy can guide us through the age of coronavirus

Ryan Holiday
Forge
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4 min readMar 13, 2020

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TThe single most important practice in Stoic philosophy is differentiating between what we can change and what we can’t. What we have influence over and what we do not. In stressful times, I like to reread this…

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Ryan Holiday
Forge
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