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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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ELI5: What is Stoicism?
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Stoicism is often misunderstood as a philosophy of uncaring or being disconnected from a problem. Rather it is about how to focus your mental energy on things that you have control over. Leading up a more virtuous life. 

Say you are angry about someone who made disrespectful comments about you. Stoics say you have no control over that person to make such comments, therefore you shouldn't worry about changing how they talk about you. Instead stoics suggest you should focus on bettering yourself so it is obvious to everyone that such comments are not true about you.