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Letters from a Stoic 2– Key Takeaways

            The central theme of this second letter is productivity. Seneca advises Lucilius that the key to getting the most of something whether be it reading a book, learning from different mentors, finishing a task, or traveling is to focus on one book, mentor, task, or place. He stressed out that the ability to focus on one thing or stay in one place is an indication of organized thinking.         “The primary indica­tion,…

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Letters from a Stoic 1 – Key Takeaways

Letters from a Stoic 1 – Key Takeaways

          In this first letter, Seneca stressed out the importance of valuing time. To make a point he said that time is the only commodity we own. “Nothing, Lucilius, is ours, except time.”   Seneca describes how we waste our time and how we can make use of it to the fullest. As for the former, he said that we waste our time if we do bad things (vices), do nothing, or…

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3 Ways To Define Our Sphere Of Control (Stoicism)

          If you have been exposed to Stoicism, you probably have known that one of the ways we can attain inner peace is to divide things into which we have control and that which we don’t have control. Things in our control include our thoughts, emotion, and behavior and things not in our control include our reputation, other people’s opinions, weather, death, and general life circumstances. This is popularly known as…

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5 Clever Ways Stoics View Death (Within Reasons)

            One of the things that the stoics talk frequently in their works is the idea of death. It’s probably, for most of us weird, to even talk about it but the stoics had a clever way of putting death into perspective to deal with the difficulties of life, especially anxiety.            Here are 5 ways the ancient stoics view death:Death is a natural process.“And what dying is—and that if you…

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Premeditatio Malorum

 Premeditatio Malorum is a stoic exercise of expecting of terrible things that can happen at any event or time. Some people mistakenly view this practice as pessimism but it’s actually a great way to prepare for setbacks. Most of disappointment in people’s life came from an unrealistic view of a perfect world – that things ought to happen the way we want it to be. Obviously that’s not the case. When you expect the worst…

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