"It is essential for you to remember that the attention you give to any action should be in due proportion to its worth, for then you won't tire and give up, if you aren't busying yourself with lesser things beyond what should be allowed."-MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 4.32b
("어떤 행동에 주는 주의가 그 가치에 비례해야 함을 기억하는 것이 중요합니다. 그래야 불필요한 일들로 인해 지치지 않고, 허용된 범위를 넘어서지 않도록 할 수 있습니다." - 마르쿠스 아우렐리우스, 『명상록』 4.32b)
In 1997, a psychotherapist named Richard Carlson published a book called Don't Sweat the Small Stuff...and It's All Small Stuff. It quickly became one of the fastest-selling books of all time and spent years on the bestseller lists, ultimately selling millions of copies in many languages.
Whether you read the book or not, Carlson's pithy articulation of this timeless idea is worth remembering. Even Cornelius Fronto, Marcus Aurelius's rhetoric teacher, would have thought it a superior way of expressing the wisdom his student attempted in...
