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Greg Sadler

Article will be available on Monday, July 1st, 2019

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Monday, July 1st, 2019

What would a Stoic do?

What Would A Stoic Do || GREG SADLER, TIM LEBON

There’s no straightforward answer to the question

Article will be available on Sunday, March 1st, 2020

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Sunday, March 1st, 2020

Is this Stoic? Ask yourself these three questions

Feature || GREG SADLER

Is the Joker Stoic? Is Batman?

Article will be available on Wednesday, April 1st, 2020

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Wednesday, April 1st, 2020

A time to practice Stoic virtues

Feature || GREG SADLER

Widespread shutdowns 

At the time that I write this, midway through March, responses to COVID-19 have shut down a good part of Milwaukee. As in many other places, students have been sent home from schools, colleges, and universities and classes have shifted online. Concerts and sporting events have been cancelled. Libraries, community centers, health clubs, even courthouses have been closed. Many office buildings have emptied, allowing employees to work from home. 

Article will be available on Friday, May 1st, 2020

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Friday, May 1st, 2020

The art of balancing optimism with realism

Feature || GREG SADLER

The Stockdale paradox 

Last month, I was interviewed by a reporter who was writing about the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, what resources Stoic philosophy can contribute, and what has come to be termed the “Stockdale paradox.” Jim Collins came up with that term in his management book, Good To Great, and used it to describe something that isn’t really a paradox in any genuine sense of the term. 

Article will be available on Friday, May 27th, 2022

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Friday, May 27th, 2022

The Stoic approach to failure

Feature || GREG SADLER

“Each occasion of failing offers an opportunity to exercise those dimensions of the virtue of courage that the Stoics called perseverance and industriousness.”

Article will be available on Friday, June 24th, 2022

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Friday, June 24th, 2022

Stoic approach to grief

Feature || GREG SADLER

“I still grieve for my cat companion, to the point of feeling sadness and shedding tears, but I can also deliberately choose to shift my mind’s focus to the wonderful memories of the life we shared together."

Article will be available on Friday, August 26th, 2022

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Friday, August 26th, 2022

Dealing with regrets

Feature || GREG SADLER

“Regret and remorse aren’t good in themselves, but they may be a sign that there’s more work to do.”

Article will be available on Friday, October 28th, 2022

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Friday, October 28th, 2022

Stoic reminders

Feature || GREG SADLER

“If you do desire possessing quotes that you can stock up within your mind, the best, the most reliable, the most intelligent way to do that is. . . don’t focus primarily on quotes."

Article will be available on Friday, November 25th, 2022

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Friday, November 25th, 2022

Metal concert in the festival of life

Feature || Greg Sadler

You can practice Stoicism and also have a good time... For a Stoic, these sorts of things are all matters of rationality and proportion.

Article will be available on Wednesday, February 8th, 2023

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Wednesday, February 8th, 2023

Is social media blocking Stoic?

Practicing Stoicism || Greg Sadler

Article will be available on Wednesday, May 31st, 2023

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Wednesday, May 31st, 2023

On caring

Stoic Life Coaching || Greg Sadler

There are a number of matters, and people in particular, that you can’t be a good or even mediocre Stoic without caring about to some extent.

Article will be available on Sunday, July 16th, 2023

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Sunday, July 16th, 2023

When bad things happen to other people

Practicing Stoicism || GREG SADLER

Caring about and being concerned for our fellow human beings is an integral part of what the Stoics assert to be our rational and therefore social nature. It’s not a question of whether or not Stoics can or should care about others. Instead, it’s a matter of HOW.

Article will be available on Sunday, August 13th, 2023

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Sunday, August 13th, 2023

Joy through remembrance of things past

Practicing Stoicism || GREG SADLER

From a strictly and literal Stoic perspective, that is a negative emotion, something bad for us to feel, not something to be encouraged or indulged in. But my experiences make me wonder whether there isn’t something also good to be gained when these emotions are felt in connection and conjunction with joy.

Article will be available on Sunday, October 15th, 2023

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Sunday, October 15th, 2023

Stoic strength: “Enduring and renouncing?”

Practicing Stoicism || GREG SADLER

When you reduce Stoicism to sound-bites or life-hacks, what you think you’re working with ceases being Stoicism, and you’re likely to make yourself worse in the process.

Article will be available on Tuesday, December 26th, 2023

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Tuesday, December 26th, 2023

Understanding Stoic harmony

Practicing Stoicism || GREG SADLER

An ancient Stoic ideal

“Living in harmony,” “in agreement,” or “in accordance” is an ideal of the Stoa from the beginning of that school onward. In his Epitome of Stoic Ethics, Arius Didymus indicates Zeno was first to frame the goal of life along those lines, as to homologoumenos zen  in Greek.  He adds that Zeno means “to live according to a single line of reason [kath’hena logon] and in harmony [sumphonon]”, explaining that “those who live in conflict [makhomenos] are unhappy”.