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4 Stoic Ideas That Are Changing The Way I Think and Live
The impediment to action advances action
The stoics are considered the wisest students about human nature. Their teachings offer practical recommendations on how to live a better life.
If you apply some of its ideas, you’ll become a more resilient and happier person. In the words of writer Ward Farnsworth:
The stoics were deep students of desire, fear, status, emotion, and much else that bedeviled the human race thousands of years ago and bedevils still. They were philosophers of a down-to-earth sort, seeking by force of their insights to free ordinary people from their sufferings and illusions.
When I started to apply some of the teachings of the Stoics, I experienced a significant mindset shift. As a result, I began to act more consciously and raised my awareness about how I live my life.
Our Judgments About Reality Are More Harmful than Reality Itself
“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.”
— Seneca
I used to think it was unfair when bad things happened to me. I wondered what I’ve…
