358. Challenge your impressions, don't "just do it"

from Stoic Meditations · host Massimo Pigliucci

Epictetus tells us about a fundamental Stoic technique: never act on first impressions and implied judgments. Always pause, challenge your impressions, make the judgments explicit, and see whether they were on target or not.

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