Try telling that to the Illuminati

I control what happens every second of my life?

He is illuminity

This should be adopted by the gun control proponents. Criminals get every advantage. They get to choose the time, place, and level of violence - all us good people can do, is react.

Is this stoicism?

Right until a plane hits your house. You only control what you do, not what happens.

Yes, Ryan Holiday is probably the most prolific modern stoic interpreter at the moment. He has written several books on the topic and writes the daily stoic news letter.

This is a reworded Bruce Lee quote.

What you do is what happens?

Agreed. These words shouldn’t be attributed to Holiday. While I like his work, he isn’t bringing new ideas to the table. Just rewriting what’s already been written for our time (which is valuable in its own way).

Yes. Ryan was quoting the stoics. He doesn't claim to have invented this phrase.

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Deep but true

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It’s essentially a Marcus Aurelius quote from Meditations written around 170 AD. “If thou art pained by any external thing, it is not this thing that disturbs thee, but thy own judgment about it. And it is in thy power to wipe out this judgment now.”

React slow, like a psychopath.

Well, not quite. At times you are the actor. You have agency.

At others, you are acted upon by other people or circumstances change. These things happen, but they are outside your control.

I've got an ex who used this line to try and tell me why I shouldn't get mad when he hurt me.

The quote is technically true, but it can easily be misinterpreted or applied incorrectly.

I think they only appear to have been out of your control retrospectively because our knowledge of the present is always regrettably incomplete.

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But how does this paradigm explain other people? One cannot have total control over one's own life where other peoples' lives cross it. Otherwise they would lose control over their own life, which somehow makes the first person special. Two people can't have total control over their own lives when their actions affect each other. They can have degrees of influence over their life, of course, but not total control.

To think everything within our lives is within our agency affirms the just-world fallacy.

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I admire your persistence commenting. Well done