260530 What I learned in my studies this morning 6

Today's Meditation(s):

Meditations, 10.33 (Hicks and Hicks)

I try to teach my kids that Stoicism doesn't guarantee success. It guarantees that they will have their best chance at success.

Exactly because it focuses us on what we have at hand, on what the situation is without embellishments, and on what is up to us: our internal states and our actions.

If I choose not to make the best decisions in that setting, that's on me. I had that option and left it on the table.