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A MEDITATION

“ If thou art pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs thee, but thy own judgment about it.

— Marcus Aurelius

Meditations 8.47

On control

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A reflection

Marcus reminds himself of this in Meditations more than a dozen times. If the wisest man in Rome needed the reminder that often, you can afford to post it somewhere you'll see it. The judgment is the lever — operate it.

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