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We don’t want to look in the mirror. We don’t want to put ourselves up for review. We can see what everyone else is doing wrong, their obvious issues and compulsions, but our own? We turn away.
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Seneca told his friend Lucilius, “You should keep learning…to the end of your life.” The same must be true for us. Let us never stop striving to not only know more, but to become better, wiser, and more virtuous individuals.
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There is no race. There is only you. Just keep going. Keep going with virtue. If you liked this message, you'll like The Daily Stoic email. Each morning, we send a short email inspired by Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, and more. Each email will help you cultivate the https://t.co/7eaZVLdo53
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“True happiness is to enjoy the present without anxious dependence upon the future, not to amuse ourselves with either hopes or fears but to rest satisfied.” — Seneca
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Getting more shit done is great. But, the quality of your work is likely to be shit. Instead, acknowledge the fact that we have a limited attention span and focus on figuring out two-three most important tasks of the day and devote your undivided attention to accomplishing them.
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Think of each single day as a single life. — Seneca
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5 timeless life lessons from Marcus Aurelius: 1. Train your perceptions. 2. Turn the other cheek. 3. View obstacles as opportunities. 4. Love your fate. 5. Compare your life to eternity
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4 Stoic Don'ts: 1. Don't look outside yourself for approval (Epictetus) 2. Don't suffer imagined troubles (Seneca) 3. Don't fear change (Marcus Aurelius) 4. Give up on the idea of revenge (Marcus Aurelius)
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First learn the meaning of what you say and then speak discourses. —Epictetus
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Be the person who surprises others with your genuine interest in them, the respect you extend, and your disregard for unnecessary formalities or status symbols. You’ll be astonished at how this approach earns you lasting respect and admiration. True greatness, as Cato
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You don’t need perfect conditions or absolute confidence to move forward. You need only to take the next step.
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The task of the philosopher, Epictetus said, was to focus on what we control. We don’t control much, but we do control whether we register to vote and whether we bother to show up. Will our vote be decisive? Will the politicians listen? That’s not up to us, really. And even if it
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Even the hardest, most heartbreaking moments of life can be transformed by endurance, by selflessness, by courage, by kindness, by decency. This is true of success as much as it is adversity.
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Epictetus tells us that our chief task in life is to separate the choices we control and those we don't.
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Anxiety, worry, doubt, imposter syndrome? These things are no good to you. You must push them aside. You must put these impressions up to the test, master them so they don’t master you…so you can do what you need to do.
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Even though Stoicism is a ruggedly individual philosophy, at the core of it is this idea of “the circles of concern.” Our first concern, the Stoics said, is ourselves. Then our family, our community, our country, our world, all living things. The work of philosophy is to draw https://t.co/5guLnGnwxo
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You can also commit injustice by doing nothing. — Marcus Aurelius
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The choice is always yours. https://t.co/qnbVcrQDHF
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If you wish to improve, be content to appear clueless or stupid. — Epictetus https://t.co/MCZYUAfSxA
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Enter people's minds, and you'll find the judges you're so afraid of — and how judiciously they judge themselves.” — Marcus Aurelius
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