The Daily Stoic - Don’t Take Control, Take Charge

Episode Date: July 27, 2022

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the writer Ann Wilson Schafe makes a distinction that the Stoics would have certainly agreed with. There is a difference, she writes, between trying to control everything in your life and taking charge of your life. Trying to control our lives puts us in a position of failure before we start, she writes, and causes endless and unnecessary pain and suffering. Taking charge of our lives means owning our lives and having respondability to our lives. Respondability is a great word, and one we should add to our vocabulary today. The same goes for the distinction between taking charge and taking control. As the Stoics try to teach us only a fool thinks they can control fortune or prevent bad

things from occurring through worry or endless work. Only a tyrant thinks they can determine everything other people do and say. A wise person, on the other hand, takes responsibility for themselves and says, I might not be in control of what happens to me in life, but I am in charge of how I respond to it. A wise person is both responsible and responsible. And that's exactly what we are going to focus on today. Hey, just a quick reminder, stillness is the key. It's the key to success. It's the key to happiness.

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