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the art of caring deeply while looking like you absolutely don't.
means Enduring pain, hardship, or emotion without complaint or visible reaction, keeping a calm and uncomplaining front.
from From the Greek Stoikos, named for the Stoa Poikile — the "Painted Porch" in Athens where the philosopher Zeno taught his followers around the 3rd century BCE. The school took its name from the porch itself, so a "stoic" is literally a person of the porch: someone schooled in accepting fate calmly. Over centuries the capital-S philosophy shrank into the small-s adjective we use for anyone who takes a punch without flinching.
- slave to emperor
- Epictetus was enslaved; Marcus Aurelius ruled Rome
- named for porch
- Stoa was the painted colonnade where they taught
- control filter
- sort everything into yours-to-control or not
- modern revival
- finance bros rediscovered it as a personality
- not emotionless
- the goal was wisdom, never numbness
marcus aurelius — roman emperor who wrote meditations, the foundational text of stoicism, 161-180 ce
epictetus — former slave turned stoic philosopher who taught at nicopolis, greece, circa 50-135 ce
zeno of citium — founded stoicism in athens around 300 bce, taught in the stoa poikile portico