{"id":3404,"date":"2026-10-15T11:52:18","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T15:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.philosophycenter.net\/musings\/?p=3404"},"modified":"2026-11-05T11:52:34","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T16:52:34","slug":"stoic-insight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.philosophycenter.net\/musings\/stoic-insight\/","title":{"rendered":"Stoic Insight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A thought from the ancient Stoic philosophers: It\u2019s not what happens to us that determines how we feel as much as how we meet what happens. We may have little to say about the \u201ccards we\u2019re dealt\u201d at any given time, but we have a lot to say about the conclusions we reach, the stories we tell ourselves, the meanings and significances we ascribe, and whether we regard adversity as an enemy or an opportunity to transcend. In those moments when \u201cresistance is futile,\u201d we can endure by bending and moving with rather than against conditions. Everything changes. If you\u2019re struggling, hang in there, and while you\u2019re doing that, try responding rather than reacting. Often, things come right when we do.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A thought from the ancient Stoic philosophers: It\u2019s not what happens to us that determines how we feel as much as how we meet what happens. We may have little to say about the \u201ccards we\u2019re dealt\u201d at any given time, but we have a lot to say about the conclusions we reach, the stories [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philosophycenter.net\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philosophycenter.net\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philosophycenter.net\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philosophycenter.net\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philosophycenter.net\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.philosophycenter.net\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3405,"href":"https:\/\/www.philosophycenter.net\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3404\/revisions\/3405"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.philosophycenter.net\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philosophycenter.net\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.philosophycenter.net\/musings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}