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Stoicism: Ancient Tools for Modern Resilience
Lesson 4 of 12
The Stoic Toolkit
The Stoic Toolkit Checkpoint
8 min
Version 2
Question 1 of 5
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A friend loses a promotion and says, "I'm trying to be Stoic about it—I'm just not letting myself feel anything." What would be the most accurate Stoic response?
That's correct; Stoics avoid all emotional reactions to external events.
Stoicism encourages examining your judgment about the event, not suppressing the feeling itself.
Stoics would say the promotion was fated, so there's no point in thinking about it further.
A Stoic would focus on gratitude for what remains rather than on the loss.
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