Stoicism

selfism_mike · 2020-09-29T02:34:42+00:00

As long as you are concerned whether you are stoic, you aren't.

CoinSwapTrader · 2020-09-29T01:41:17+00:00

Who would want to be indifferent to evil? To have no righteous indignation and to deaden your soul?

Zaanix · 2020-09-29T06:40:42+00:00

Hopefully your username checks out.

As for my advice, consciously control your breathing (it affects thinking more than one would expect), and practice some meditation. There's probably books about the topic too. The older the author the better.

ResidentTruck · 2020-09-29T07:43:51+00:00

You focus on what is in your power to change and meditate often so that you fully understand exactly what that means.

Concurrently you do your best to do all that you can to improve your circumstances and be the best you that you can be. The essence of stoicism isn't in indifference, it's in discernment: the realization that the only things that are really and truly under our control are our attitudes.

Your possessions can be taken, your liberty can be taken, your body can be broken all without your consent, but your mind can only be changed with your consent.

Stoicism depends on virtue. The world may go to hell in a handbasket, but if you're a good man doing what you consider to be the right things, then emotionally speaking, it doesn't matter. Hell, if you're just making an honest effort to be a good man and do the right things, it's a huge relief.

That said, bad things happen to good people all the time, and to mitigate the impact of these bad things, the ancients used to take some time regularly to imagine worst-case scenarios, as a kind of mental inoculation against tragedy.

They also practiced austerity, purposely doing hard things or going without luxuries for the express purpose of toughening themselves so that if they fell on hard times, it wouldn't be an unfamiliar feeling.

dg85254 · 2020-09-29T03:02:56+00:00

Do hard stuff and don't batch about it. Also you can't just be stoic, its a process

Title	Stoicism
Author	tkingrim
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Date	September 29, 2020 1:20 AM UTC (5 years ago)
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