Although other people couldn't hold him to account, he could hold himself to account every day as he sat down and looked at the pages of his philosophy texts and the pages of his journal.
Stoicism is not something you are, it's something you do, right? It's a practice. John Adams would say that Washington had a great self-command, but that required a great amount of work.
You will get knocked off course. You will lapse on a resolution. You will fall off the wagon. You will get out of sorts. That's unavoidable. What matters is how quickly you return, how fast you find the rhythm again.
6mo ago
Underscored — save the words that stop you in your tracks.
