Stoicism & REBT: Accept Reality, Change Your Life

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:00]Epictetus once wrote, "Seek not for events to happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen."

[00:00:09]Albert Ellis expressed a similar idea in more modern psychological language.

[00:00:15]Reality is what it is. Your job is to learn how to live effectively [music] within it.

[00:00:22]The shared theme, psychological health begins when we stop demanding that reality obey our preferences. Acceptance is not surrender. [music] It is the starting point for effective action. Because when we stop fighting reality itself, we free energy to respond to it wisely.