Rob shares a more personal episode, talking about the experiences of his grandparents who were forced out of their Polish estate, sent to the Gulags, and then relocated to New Zealand. But the key insight is that while externals can be stripped from you, what’s on the inside cannot be taken away. That, and the reality that none of us have the control in life we think we do.

There is great wisdom in more fully accepting that, in our everyday lives, very little is within our actual control. Letting go of the illusion of control allows us to accept what is, and live in harmony with it with less anxiety and more freedom.