-

You Are the Project
Epictetus was a slave. When he says focus on what’s in your power, he speaks from the widest gap there is between control and circumstance. You are the project. But, Paul adds, not the only one working on it.
-

Don’t Get Lost in Other People’s Minds
Marcus catches something most self-help spends hundreds of pages circling: we say we love ourselves but spend our energy managing what other people think of us.