Peace begins the moment you accept what’s out of your hands. Stoicism teaches us to focus only on what we can control — our ...

You know that person, the one that always challenges your self-control? It might be a colleague you see occasionally at meetings, a friend of a friend, or a relative you only see at holidays. That ...

Self-control, the ability to override or change internal impulses for the benefit of longer-term, strategic goals, has always been treasured as an admirable human trait. For example, Confucius taught ...

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Shunmyo Masuno, trans. from the Japanese by Allison Markin Powell. Penguin Life, $26 (224p) ISBN 978-0-14-313813-6 Zen priest Masuno (Don’t Worry) touts the merits of living a more unencumbered life ...