Now, with his career, his finances, his reputation, and his peace of mind under attack, he turned for “emotional stability” to Stoic philosophers such as Epictetus and Seneca, reminding himself of their “general approach to misfortune. Basically, you can’t control what happens to you,” says Miller. “You can control your attitude towards it. Whether it’s good, bad, indifferent, fair, unfair, you can choose the attitude you take to it.”
