"Cognitive reframing hits at the very heart of the meditations. Most therapists in America today use what is called cognitive behavioral therapy, abbreviated as CBT. And that involves making internal adjustments to our assumptions, right? But stoicism takes this to a radical degree, right? It says, this is what I love about stoicism, our happiness depends entirely on ourselves, right? On whether or not we get a job, for example, or whether or not someone is mean to us or says bad things about us, that is all entirely irrelevant in terms of our happiness. A number of ancient Greek philosophies also have their happiness as their goal, and they are called eudaimonistic philosophies. From the ancient Greek word eudaimonia, which means happiness, me literally means well demigod, that the little god in us, we are heeding it and attending to it perfectly, right?"