In the second half of this semester, the Handbook of Epictetus and the Sun Tzu’s the art of war are the two book that were meaningful to me. The Handbook of Epictetus not only shows me the stoic philosopher’s thinking process but also teaches me how to manage my negative emotions, how to find the inner peace of my life, and how to cherish the thing that is in front of me. And for the first time, I realized that the philosophy thinkings could be implemented to and thus help to improve my daily life. In the hand book, Epictetus states that “What upsets people is not things themselves but their judgments about the things.” I never really thought things in this way before. I used to think that it is “the thing”, or in other words “the reality”
