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And that's very similar to the Let Them Theory.

Mel Robbins really talks about how

Radical acceptance is like one of the highest forms of self-love and letting yourself, giving yourself permission to not try and control others and just focus on your own comfort and let yourself, I guess, be uncomfortable in their discomfort is power.

That's where you've most likely most recently encountered Stoicism.

Ancient Stoicism is a little bit more complex than this, though.

I think that's a very fun, very rudimentary version of it.

It's very powerful.

But if you want to go even deeper into Stoicism in its ancient form, you have to really understand

again, those core virtues and work on them.

You also have to understand the three pillars of Stoicism that I don't think we've even mentioned once yet in this episode.

The three pillars of Stoicism beyond those four virtues we've spoken about are ethics, logic, and physics.

And they're interdependent, so they cannot exist without the other.

Sometimes scholars arrange these aspects of stoicism in the form of an orchard.

So like logic is the enclosing wall, physics is the trees, ethics is the fruit.

You need all of them together.

to basically bear the harvest.

The enclosing wall of the orchard is the first pillar, and that is logic.

Using logic, Stoics aim for discipline of perception.

They aim to be able to distinguish between true perceptions and false judgments.

You can see this is a theme that is coming up