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On this show, we explore that precept, by playing with judgements using thought experiments that I encourage you to try.William Irvine - Author of “The Stoic Challenge”, “A Guide to the Good Life” - The Creative Process The Creative Process “We suffer not from the events in our lives but from our judgment about them.” You’ve probably read or heard of some form of this quote attributed to another Stoic, Epictetus…

The 1st century Stoic Seneca wrote about the differences between experiencing a setback and suffering from it, by changing the perspective of how one thinks of setbacks. The Stoics’ realized that even though you have limited control over what setbacks you experience, you can develop considerable control over how you respond to them. In many ways, this ancient school of thought preempted many aspects of modern psychology and it’s practices for dealing with setback. He lives in Dayton, OhioFor the context of the show I refer you to his latest, The Stoic Challenge: A Philosopher’s Guide to Becoming Tougher, Calmer and More ResilientPhilosophy for William is not just an academic career he actually lives it, having adopted Stoicism many years ago, making him an outlier in the academic community. The author of seven books, including The Stoic Challenge and A Guide to the Good Life, he has also written for the Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, Salon, Time, and the BBC. Irvine is a professor of philosophy at Wright State University. And then how do I pass the test? – William B. So when a setback happens, what’s going on? Well, the stoic gods have decided to challenge me in some way to test me. I’ve got this whole psychological apparatus I’ve set up where, where you imagine that it’s the stoic gods.
