"You've endured countless troubles-all from not letting your ruling reason do the work it was made for-enough already!" -MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 9.26
("당신은 당신의 이성을 제 역할을 하도록 하지 않아서 수많은 고난을 겪어왔습니다. 이제 그만하십시오!" - 마르쿠스 아우렐리우스, 《명상록》 9.26)
How many things you fear have actually come to pass? How many times has anxiety driven you to behave in a way you later regret? How many times have you let jealousy or frustration or greed lead you down a bad road?
Letting our reason rule the day might seem like more work, but it saves us quite a bit of trouble. As Ben Franklin's proverb put it: "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."
Your brain was designed to do this work. It was meant to separate what is important from what is senseless, to keep things in perspective, to only become troubled by that which is worth becoming troubled about. You only need to put it to use.
당신이 두려워했던 일들 중 실제로 일어난 것이 얼마나 될까요? 불안감이 당신을 후회할 행동으로 이끈 적은 몇 ...
