I first read the enchiridion of epictetus as a teenager and it is one of the books that has most shaped the way I think about the world
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stoicism isn't "don't strive" it's, "don't be emotionally invested outside of the act of striving"
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striving is within your power, the result of it is not
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there is a rather heavy emphasis on the idea that you ought to fulfill the role you are given rather than try to reach another
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Another previously committed Stoic http://www.scifiwright.com and attorney, now Catholic and writer.
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utilitarianism is better than either of those; life is a sequence of choices among options, your job is to pick the least bad
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enlightened opportunism
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