Since completing my book, I have become very curious about the effects of logic on emotional management, and how we can use our frontal lobes—our logical thinking—to override emotions generated by subcortical brain regions such as the amygdala. I find it fascinating that the Stoic philosophers recognised and grappled with this same issue more than 2,000 years ago. One of the most famous Stoic philosophers, Marcus Aurelius, wrote Meditations , a book that continues to be a bes