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64 Ryan Holiday: Using Practical Ancient Philosophy as a Guide to Achieving Mastery

The School of Greatness

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The Stoics and Emotional Intelligence

The Stoics saw emotions in some way as an enemy. They sort of pitted emotions versus rationality, and how often harmful emotions might make us to around you. So they're basically looking at how do you make sure that you don't make situations worse? And it's all about my perception on how I emotionally react or don't react. That is going to determine our emotions and our outlook and our next actions.

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