Get Out of My Head: Creating Modern Clarity With Stoic Wisdom

Acceptance of your circumstances is not enough. The truly Stoic approach is to be grateful for all that comes to you.

how should you make sure others value you accordingly?

“Meanings are not determined by situations,” he wrote, “but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.”

we don’t rise to the occasion in big moments; rather, we fall back on our training.

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”

“I learned it was not all about how much I valued my time,” he says, “but also about how others value it. Something is really only worth what the market is willing to pay.

Draw a line connecting all of these points as a single thread through your life thus far.

Innovation is saying ‘no’ to 1,000 things. You have to pick carefully.”

TRIED and True: Take time, Reflect, Identify, Echo, then Deliver.