Sheepdog Tip of the Day, Before Combat tip 156
If you ask someone, "Why were you so anxious?" or "How could you stay so calm?" most people will say that they just react to a situation and they cannot do anything about it. They have reacted without a conscious choice. This is where the lessons of the Stoics can help us develop a means of controlling how we respond to emotionally challenging situations. This concept relates directly to our values of self-control and self-confidence, and regardless of whether we learned those values as children, we can choose to embrace them as adults. We can choose how we will respond.
Christopher Brennan, The Combat Position: Achieving Firefighter Readiness
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