Today’s Stoic
“How much trouble he avoids who does not look to see what his neighbor says or does or thinks, but only to what he does himself, that it may be just and pure.”
What it means today
Most anxiety about other people is invented in our own heads. Keep your eye on your own conduct and you sidestep a whole class of suffering.
Try this todayCatch yourself rehearsing what someone might think, and return your attention to the task in front of you.
Today’s questionHow much of my worry is about what others think, and how much of that do I actually know?