Stoicism and Surviving Our Age of Volatility

Advice from the quiet past, relevant to our stormy present.

Steven Yates
8 min readFeb 3

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Photo by Bruno Aguirre on Unsplash

Stoicism reduces to a few suggestions: easy to write, difficult to practice.

(1) Determine to be calm. (2) Observe what is happening around you. (3) Focus on what you can control. (4) Do the right thing.

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Steven Yates

I am the author of What Should Philosophy Do? A Theory. I write about philosophy, life, the future, a few current affairs, and every so often, a little music.