COGNITIVE DISSONANTICS

Stoicism was invented by people who had feelings but hated letting them win in public.

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Stoicism was founded in Athens around 300 BCE by Zeno of Citium. It teaches focusing on what one can control and responding to emotion with reason, not hiding feelings in public.

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