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Let The Wisdom Of The Ancients Help You Become A Better PersonDistilling the wisdom of three of history's greatest Stoic thinkers, Choose Your Thoughts: An Introduction to Practical Stoicism presents the timeless practical wisdom of the ancients in a fresh and updated way. Written in the form of a story about a man who is deprived of his freedom without any hope of escape, this manual will teach readers how to endure even the direst of circumstances with dignity, honor, and virtue. Choose Your Thoughts: An Introduction to Practical Stoicism is based on the writings of great thinkers such as Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius. Choose Your Thoughts: An Introduction to Practical Stoicism will teach you: How to distinguish between things that are within our power and those things that we cannot change, and how to come to peace with letting go The discipline of assent, or how to choose the way to react to external circumstances and events without becoming their victim The practice of poverty, or how to rehearse disaster and calamity before it even arrives How to master your emotions The four classical virtues of Stoicism Amor fati, or the love of fate, and how you can use it to face even the greatest challenges with good-natured cheer Memento mori, or how the meditation upon one's mortality can bring the joy back to one's daily life Want to know how the wisdom of the ancient Greek and Roman Stoics can help you transform your self-talk, perform with grace under pressure, and help you break out of negative habits and patterns? Want to know how the wisdom of the ancient Greek and Roman Stoics can help you transform your self-talk, perform with grace under pressure, and help you break out of negative habits and patterns? Whether you want to master your emotions, change your inner self-talk, or develop a more resourceful attitude toward life, Choose Your Thoughts: An Introduction to Practical