Are you Still Keeping up with the Joneses? A lesson from Epictetus

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Ever since I first heard of Stoicism, I have been diligently trying to learn more about it. As Newton said, “If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.” With that in mind, I try to read wisdom from someone like Marcus Aurelius or Epictetus every day, but it’s much harder to put it into practice. There’s an old Latin phrase, Docendo discimus, that has…