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Laura Lollar's avatar

Great analogy. If more people adopted this advice we'd have fewer people who see themselves as victims.

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Tom Sadler's avatar

"The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control." Epictetus is so right.

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Fred "Doom" Dummar's avatar

Yes. As my man Bill Henley wrote - I am the captain of my soul.

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John Dailey's avatar

That's a great poem.

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Fred "Doom" Dummar's avatar

Indeed!

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Chip Raybon's avatar

My man Epictetus… love it, Brother.

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