A is adversity. Traffic is awful.
B is your beliefs. And often they're irrational. "This shouldn't happen to me." Well, guess what, Bubba? It is happening.
C is consequences. You get angry, frustrated or depressed.
In very few cases can you change A. But you can change B. And that will change C. So let's bring in the 4th letter.
D: Dispute your irrational beliefs. "Wait a second. When did the universe guarantee me a trouble-free existence? It didn't. Traffic has happened before. It will happen again. And I will survive."
What did Epictetus, the great Stoic philosopher, say way back in the first century AD?
People are disturbed not by things, but by the views they take of them.
What did Shakespeare write in Hamlet?
There's nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.
How about the Buddha?
We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our thoughts we make the world.
37 rules of life (Words of Wisdom)有些事，很多人在做；你不做，不代表你错了。
果实熟透了才可以采摘，思考沉稳了才可以充分表达。
欲胜人者先自胜，欲卑人者先自卑。
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