Lessons from an American Stoic by Mark Matousek

Author:Mark Matousek
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2023-04-13T00:00:00+00:00

We’re meant to burn down our emotional houses on a regular basis, Waldo suggested, to enjoy the freedom left behind in the ashes. With a clear-eyed view of the challenges before us, we may find it within ourselves to prevail.

Equal to the Task

“Knowledge is the antidote to fear,” Waldo tells us (COU). To the degree that you feel unprepared for or unequal to the task at hand, fear proliferates. He uses the example of a child struggling in class with his lessons to illustrate this point.

A schoolboy is daunted before his tutor by a question of arithmetic, because he does not yet command the simple steps of the solution which the boy beside him has mastered. These once seen, he is as cool as Archimedes and cheerfully proceeds a step further. (COU)

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