Six ways to make your life easier and more peaceful - by using stoic principles

As the world felt increasingly chaotic, I wondered which principles I could apply - turns out there were many Working as a journalist for more than two decades, I often felt overwhelmed by the sheer amount of news - much of it daunting - that I created and consumed each day. Switching off wasn't an option. Anyway, I believed that, journalist or not, citizens had a duty to be informed. Within our power are opinion, motivation, desire, aversion and, in a word, whatever is of our own doing; not wit...