Jonas Salzgeber – Medium

Jonas Salzgeber

Jonas Salzgeber
in
Stoic Practices

As Long as You Live and While You Can, Become Good Now

“Don’t behave as if you are destined to live forever. What’s fated hangs over you. As long as you live and while you can, become good…

3 min readJan 26, 2019

--

As Long as You Live and While You Can, Become Good Now

--

Jonas Salzgeber
in
Stoic Practices

This 2-Minute Stoic Idea Will Forever Change Your Life

“So make a practice at once of saying to every strong impression: ‘An impression is all you are, not the source of the impression.’ Then…

4 min readJan 16, 2019

--

This 2-Minute Stoic Idea Will Forever Change Your Life

--

Jonas Salzgeber
in
Stoic Practices

Why Listening Trumps Speaking

“Let silence be your goal for the most part; say only what is necessary, and be brief about it. On the rare occasions when you’re called…

2 min readJan 14, 2019

--

Why Listening Trumps Speaking

--

Jonas Salzgeber

To Err Is Human, To Forgive Divine

“Whenever you take offense at someone’s wrongdoing, immediately turn to your own similar failings, such as seeing money as good, or…

2 min readJan 12, 2019

--

To Err Is Human, To Forgive Divine

--

Jonas Salzgeber

Why Anger Is Your Worst Enemy

“Keep this thought handy when you feel a fit of rage coming on — it isn’t manly to be enraged.

4 min readJan 10, 2019

--

Why Anger Is Your Worst Enemy

--

Jonas Salzgeber
in
Stoic Practices

Review Your Day: The Stoic Evening Routine

“I make use of this opportunity, daily pleading my case at my own court. When the light has been taken away and my wife has fallen silent…

4 min readJan 8, 2019

--

Review Your Day: The Stoic Evening Routine

--

Jonas Salzgeber
in
Stoic Practices

Prepare Yourself for the Day: The Stoic Morning Routine

“When you first rise in the morning tell yourself: I will encounter busybodies, ingrates, egomaniacs, liars, the jealous and cranks. They…

3 min readJan 4, 2019

--

Prepare Yourself for the Day: The Stoic Morning Routine

--

Jonas Salzgeber
in
Stoic Practices

Remind Yourself of the Impermanence of Things

“When giving your child or wife a kiss, repeat to yourself, ‘I am kissing a mortal.’” — Epictetus

3 min readJan 3, 2019

--

Remind Yourself of the Impermanence of Things

--

Jonas Salzgeber
in
Stoic Practices

The Anti-Puppet Mindset

“If a person gave away your body to some passersby, you’d be furious. Yet you hand over your mind to anyone who comes along, so they may…

3 min readDec 31, 2018

--

The Anti-Puppet Mindset

--

Jonas Salzgeber
in
Stoic Practices

The Equanimity Game

“When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer…

3 min readDec 29, 2018

--

The Equanimity Game

--

Jonas Salzgeber

Jonas Salzgeber

Author of The Little Book of Stoicism and blogger specializing in the application of Stoic philosophy & co-founder of www.njlifehacks.com

Following

Help
Status
About
Careers
Press
Blog
Privacy
Terms
Text to speech
Teams