What Makes An Optimist?

Niklas Göke
5 min readMay 29, 2019

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“Choose not to be harmed, and you won’t be harmed. Don’t feel harmed and you haven’t been.” — Marcus Aurelius

Habits are an ancient art. Much of what Greek and Roman Stoics taught some 2,000 years ago, modern-day science now confirms. Marcus Aurelius’s view on how to handle negativity is no exception.

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Niklas Göke

I write for dreamers, doers, and unbroken optimists. Read my daily blog here: https://nik.art/