Read more about the article Stoic Way of Building Inner Peace Part 1 : Know Your Sphere Of Control
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Stoic Way of Building Inner Peace Part 1 : Know Your Sphere Of Control

One of the techniques used by ancient Stoics to build inner peace is to know what things you can and can’t control. When troubled by thoughts or emotions from a circumstance, Stoics evaluates if they can influence a particular situation or not. If they do, they will take full responsibility into it and if not there is no reason to even think about it and just left it to the gods and nature. The sphere of…

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Does Stoicism suggest pessimism?

On of the common practice of Stoicism is premeditatio malorum which basically means expecting the bad things that can happen in any event. For the stoics, its a way of preparing for the worst. As a result, a lot of people question whether this practice is a form of pessimism. A pessimistic person cannot help but think of a negative series of events on a particular situation. For a simple health issue for instance,  a pessimistic person will…

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Premeditatio Malorum

Dealing with Anger: Premeditatio Malorum

Premeditatio Malorum is a stoic exercise of expecting of terrible things to happen at  any given time. I think for the most part anger came from an unrealistic view of a perfect world – that everything happens in our way. It came from setting up high expectation of the world such as everybody should have the same political views that we have, that all people are given fair treatment etc.The Stoics believe that life is…

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