Stop Worrying, Don't care Stoic

Marcus Aurelius aimed to fulfil the task that fate had bestowed upon him which was to serve humanity

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therefore he cared deeply about fulfilling his purpose , to achieve this he needed to care less about things

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that didn't deserve Value or Attention, and we can say that there are many such things, one of the fundamental concept of stoicisms.

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is the distinction between things within our control and things beyond our control. stoics believe about our limited ..

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influence over these things , they thought that we burden ourselves unnecessarily, if we don't do this ,when life becomes painful

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it often means, we care about things over which we have no control by doing this we allow these things to control and manipulate us like puppets.

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however if we stop caring about these exteranal factors they lose power over us and we attain Tranquility.

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