The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holidayby Parker on Twos"Don't trust in your reputation, money, or position, but in the strength that is yours—namely, your judgements about things that you control and don't control. For this alone is what makes us free and unfettered, that picks us up by the neck from the depths and lifts us eye to eye with the rich and powerful." - EpictetusFocus inward on acquiring power rather than outward