A Stoic approach to frustration over gym closures

I’ve been really, really frustrated about the gym closures, because hitting the gym 2-3 times a week has been very important for me. Dealing with this frustration got me thinking about the dichotomy of control, a Stoic practice that basically states that some things are within our control and others are not. It gives us a framework to be effective at solving problems by dividing them into segments – things we can control and things we can't.

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A modern translation makes all the difference

When approaching texts by the old philosophers, one is often confronted with language that is more or less incomprehensible. Even if you would read a translation into your native language, the names and references won’t make much sense to you, unless you spend a lot of time researching and understanding what things actually meant or symbolised in Roman times.

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