Massimo Pigliucci

It is really about agency.

Right.

So it's not a question of not caring.

Oh, I'm not worried as in I'm not care.

Of course you care.

You do want to do well in your in your tests.

Right.

But caring is means doing your best to actually do well on the test and then move on and learn.

Once the time comes, learn from the mistakes if you actually made any.

And if it turns out that the mistakes were, in fact, dramatic, so much so that you actually have to rethink everything.

you know, the rest of your life, okay, well, that's also under your control.

You can do that.

It may be painful.

It may be not what you expected, but it's still the same principle still holds.

Well, one of the fundamental principles is that our goal in life should be to live rationally and pro-socially, which the Stoics put it in this way.

They said we should live according to nature.

meaning according to human nature.

Their analysis of human nature is that we are essentially animals.

So we need the same things that a lot of other animals need, right?

Shelter, food, water, that sort of stuff.