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How To Deal With Adversity
We all face some form of adversity from time to time. The list of things we consider adverse can be long: insults, isolation, illness, loss of material things or people close to us, poverty, betrayal, heartbreak, and so on. When any of these things happen, we are stressed.
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How To Deal With Ungrateful People
We have all benefitted people, in the form of gifts and help when they need it, who seldom reciprocate. When we need help, even if is it very simple, they are nowhere in sight. When seen, they feel no need to return a favor.
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How To Deal With Anxiety
Why do we become anxious at all? Why do we become distressed? Why are we anxious about the future? If we look at our problems closely we see that all our anxieties fall into one of the following two categories.
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How To Deal With Annoying People, The Stoic Way
Although we may not consider it a major problem, we all experience annoyances in our daily life. Annoyances make us angry or irritated and make our life less pleasant. What is the Stoic solution to this problem?
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How To Make Or Break Habits
When we quickly judge a person or a situation, we do so out of habit, not out of careful consideration. In fact, most of our judgments about people and situations are based on habits. If our habits are faulty so will our judgments be.
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Stoicism: My One-Minute Elevator Pitch
I have been practicing some form of Stoicism practically all my life. But I don’t talk about it. I generally avoid talking to others about my beliefs mainly because I need to explain them to those who don’t know what they are, ‘defend’ them when they are misunderstood and...
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The Trichotomy Fallacy
At the heart of Stoicism lies the concept of the dichotomy of ‘control’: "Some things are up to us and others are not."Books
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