Three Stoic One-Liners That Dissolve Anxiety: Judgment, Imagination, Control
Epictetus and Seneca compressed two thousand years of anxiety treatment into three sentences: it is not things that upset us but our judgments about them, we suffer more in imagination than in reality, and power belongs only to what is in our control. Here is what each line actually means, why modern psychology keeps rediscovering it, and how to run all three as a sixty-second protocol.