Ten everyday situations. For each one, decide whether it is yours to steer or not. Two minutes, no account, nothing is stored.
Each situation belongs in one of two boxes. In the first sits what you steer: your choices, your conduct, what you do with a feeling. In the second sits the rest: other people, outcomes, the weather, the first jolt of a feeling before you have a say. Epictetus opens his handbook with this division, and everything on this site practises it.
Three of the ten are traps. They look like one box and belong in the other. The result shows not only how many you got right, but which way you tend to err: carrying what is not yours, or giving away what is.
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