Laurie’s Reviews > The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Caused an Epidemic of Mental Illness > Status Update

Marcus Aurelius: Don’t waste the rest of your time worrying about other people-unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing anything useful. You’ll be too preoccupied with what so-and-so is doing and why and what they’re saying and what they’re thinking and what they’re up to and all the other things that throw you off & keep you from focusing on your own mind.