Summary: Welcome back to Mid-Week Meditations, Lifehacker’s weekly dip into the pool of stoic wisdom, and how you can use its waters to reflect on and improve your life. This week’s stoic quote comes from the Greek philosopher Epictetus, who was born a slave and had his teachings written down by one of his pupils. Those writings would eventually become his Discourses and Enchiridion. “It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.
