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How do you keep a positive frame of mind in challenging circumstances? Troubles with loved ones, at work, with poverty, business? Try this tool, drawn from a passage of Plutarch's moral writings (Moralia).
Treatise mentioned: On Tranquility of Mind (from the Moralia)
People Mentioned:
Paccius - a Roman senator, not known outside of Plutarch's works. Possibly a friend or acquaintance of Pliny the Younger, Tacitus.
Epaminondas - Famous Theban general and statesman. Major character in the Life of Pelopidas, brief mention in the Life of Eumenes.
Fabricius - Famous Roman general and statesman. Major character in the Life of Pyrrhus (also coming soon)
Tool discussed: reframing the conception of external circumstances, in order to alter one's inner state.
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