
Holiday emphasizes the importance of emotional regulation-intentionally deciding which emotions you will allow to influence your behavior. First, let’s look at Holiday’s internal, emotional strategies for success.

For the rest of this guide, we’ll be discussing specific strategies to help you live according to these truths: ways to reorient your thinking and overcome any problem.

So far, we’ve outlined two truths from Stoicism that Holiday asserts will help you fulfill your wildest ambitions. As Holiday would predict, their optimistic perceptions determined how they responded to life events, making their lives demonstrably “luckier.” The Internal Fight: Master Your Emotions These characteristics made them more likely to stumble into romantic success and promotions at work. The lucky subjects who approached life with this positive attitude thrived because they took more risks, sought out more unfamiliar situations, and were more receptive to positive opportunities than their unlucky counterparts.
