Dr. Alok 'Dr. K' Kanojia

Everyone knows, myself included, which is a little bit terrifying and I was dissociating, things are not ideal.

let's say.

But her emotional reaction and his emotional reaction is different.

So you can absolutely train the way that you respond to situations.

You can adjust the way that you move through life

so that you do not have profound emotional reactions.

This is tranquility.

This is groundedness.

Now the question becomes, how?

So this is where there's two major buckets.

The first bucket is attitude.

The way that you interpret the things around you will alter your emotions drastically.

When I get an F, what does this mean?

Does this mean I am a failure?

Or does this mean, oh, wow, there is really an area of knowledge that I am deficient in that I need to spend a lot of time learning?

Those are two very different emotional responses.

The way that you receive what the world sends your way will dictate the largest part of your emotional response.

This is what the Stoics said.

This is what the Buddha said.

The Buddha said that there's no protection from pain, but there is absolute protection from suffering.