Thursday, July 25, 2024

Epictetus on imagination

 

And then, because of our lack of training, we’re constantly compounding our problems and making them out to be greater than they really are. For instance, when I’m on board a ship, I peer down into the depths, or I look at the sea all around me, with no land in sight, and I become unsettled and imagine myself swallowing all that water if the ship goes down. It doesn’t occur to me that three pints is all it takes. What is it that’s disturbing me? The sea? No, my judgment.

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