William Irvine

Misfortune weighs most heavily, he says, on those who “expect nothing but good fortune.”

learn how to feel joy

They recommended that we spend time imagining that we have lost the things we value—that our wife has left us, our car was stolen, or we lost our job. Doing this, the Stoics thought, will make us value our wife, our car, and our job more than we otherwise would.