“You are silly,” Epictetus says, “[if] you would have the things which are not in your power to be in your power, and the things which belong to others to be yours.” If we could carefully separate between the things which are up to us and the things which are not, and focus on those up to us and let the rest happen as it will, then we’d get much less jerked around by the negative emotions caused by faulty judgments.
