Stoicism and the Continuum of Control

Increase the range of what you can control … but do it ethically!

Steven Yates
8 min readJan 23

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Photo by Rian Adi on Unsplash

Stoicism begins by urging us to focus on what we can control, setting aside what we can’t control. We can’t control the majority of the events around us, other people and their thoughts and responses, or what they believe and do, any more than we can control the weather, or traffic, or the…

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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.