And why is there so much hype around it nowdays?
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In simple terms, you can boil Stoicism down to: “Do not let yourself be dominated by your negative emotions.” That is, you might be unhappy about something, but to be a stoic you won’t get stuck on it. You’ll move on to the positive things instead, and look at the FEELING of unhappiness as being beneath you. It doesn’t mean ignore or dismiss the problem that lead to it, or anything like that.
The hype around it is an enormous spectrum. You have the misunderstanding end of it, people who think it’s their idea of peaceful hippy Buddhism. You have the “no emotions at all” side of it, where people think it means acting like a robot. You have the gaslighting side of it, where people are saying “Be stoic. Don’t have feelings [about things I did to you that you’re unhappy about]!” It’s a seemingly easy concept to jump on because nobody really studies it and most people don’t understand it, but can simply reduce it to “Chill, bro!”
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