Personal outlook

The focus of comparing your emotions is often to minimize ether what you are feeling or what they are feeling. some examples include:

• You might think that you don't have the right to be upset about something because someone else is going through something worse.
• You might feel ...

The Stoic says that everything else– disease, war, suffering, others’ aggression toward you– is completely neutral and is neither good nor evil.

This is what is meant by “The Inner Citadel.” The Stoics believed that your soul is your stronghold. It’s the only thing over which you have compl...

When you are coping with something difficult in your life, it isn't uncommon for someone else to say " it could be worse." 

Comparing your own pain and other emotions to others is common, but that does not mean that is always helpful

In other cases, comparisons can st...