5 Tips From Aristotle To Live Your Un-Lived Life (and Make Peace With It)

The one who falls and gets up is stronger than the one who never fell.

Noorain Ali
Mind Cafe
Published in
5 min readAug 22, 2022

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Aristotle had multiple nicknames. Some were:

  • The man who knew everything
  • The philosopher, named by Thomas Aquinas
  • The master

Orphaned at a young age, Aristotle’s guardian, Proxenus of Atarneus, sent him to Plato’s academy.

Platonic academy in ancient Greece was managed by Plato and worked on the principles of observation, logic, and knowledge sharing. But when Aristotle was 37, Plato died too.

This brought immense shock to Aristotle. The orphan soon realized that life had much to offer, despite his orphanage and teacher’s death. On one account, Aristotle said:

“Some men are born natural slaves.”

Are you a natural slave or a warrior like Aristotle?

Either way — we are slaves of negative thinking, bad habits, and unhealthy relationships.

Aristotle was able to defeat his negative whims. Maybe because it was 384 BC back then, and it’s 2022 (now).

Untruthful comparison. But yeah, this is the truth.

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Noorain Ali
Mind Cafe

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