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Steady is a practical guide to Stoic philosophy for handling worry, the news, and strong emotions, with the modern research that bears on it. Chapter 1 explains the Stoic account of how a reaction forms, from the event to your response. The rest of the book uses its terms and methods.
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What Chapter 1 covers
- The four steps between an event and your response: the event, your impression of it, the judgment you accept, and your response
- Which of those steps are up to you, and three columns for sorting what you face
- How these Stoic ideas entered modern cognitive therapy, and what that history does and does not show
- A four-step method for difficult moments: CATCH, DESCRIBE, SORT, CHOOSE
- The Judgment Log, a seven-day record of strong feelings and the judgments that came with them
The PDF is the chapter exactly as it appears in the printed book, with its numbered sources at the end. Steady is Book 2 of The Mastery Series by T-Michael Dougherty, Ed.D., MPA.
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