#4 - Practice ignoring things that are beyond your control. The Stoics had this correct. Some things lay beyond our control and therefore shouldn’t consume our attentional resources. Epictetus, a Greek philosopher who died in 135 AD, noted the following in his Discourses: The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under my control, and which have to do with the choices I actually control.”
