[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":52},["ShallowReactive",2],{"stoicism-article-02/14":3},{"path":4,"stem":5,"title":6,"description":7,"meta":8,"body":24},"/stoicism/02/14","stoicism/02/14","Think Before You Act","Meditation for February 14, 2021",{"quotes":9,"last_updated_at":15,"tags":16,"categories":20,"changeFreq":22,"backgroundImage":23},[10],{"quote":11},{"content":12,"author":13,"source":14},"For to be wise is only one thing - to fix our attention on our intelligence, which guides all things everywhere.","Heraclitus, Quoted","Diogenes Laertius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers, 9.1","2021-02-14T07:00:00",[17,18,19],"stoicism","passions","emotions",[21,17],"meditation","never","/IMG_4034.jpg",{"type":25,"value":26,"toc":46},"minimark",[27,35,38,43],[28,29,30,31],"p",{},"Regret. The follow-up question. ",[32,33,34],"em",{},"What was I thinking?",[28,36,37],{},"The obvious answer is no thought was involved. Raw emotion trumped reasoned thought. Our brain is left out of our\nresponse as our muscles tense and hormones surge.",[39,40,42],"h3",{"id":41},"conclusion","Conclusion",[28,44,45],{},"Our ability to reason through difficult events is great. Faced with difficulty we would do well to not let all other\nparts of our body respond before our mind.",{"title":47,"searchDepth":48,"depth":48,"links":49},"",2,[50],{"id":41,"depth":51,"text":42},3,1793716905422]