Archive | June, 2009
The Quarter-life crisis won’t take me down
You might have heard of this one. The quarter-life crisis is a phase you go through somewhere in your twenties or as Wiki puts it “a term applied to the period of life immediately following the major changes of adolescence, usually ranging from the early twenties to the early thirties.” It’s a phase where all [...]
Continue reading...Stoic psychological tactics part five: meditation
10 June 2009
This blogpost is part five in a series of five exploring the Stoic psychological tactics that can be used to rediscover joy in your life and is based on William Irvine’s A guide to the good life. A lot can be said about meditation and there are countless ways to practice it. None of [...]
Continue reading...Stoic psychological tactics part four: Self-Denial
8 June 2009
This blogpost is part four in a series of five exploring the Stoic psychological tactics that can be used to rediscover joy in your life and is based on William Irvine’s A guide to the good life. This tactic takes the negative visualisation a step further. Not only do we contemplate what the worst [...]
Continue reading...My blogchallenge: a weekly update 7
6 June 2009
Another week passed and my blog is stabilizing. Although things are slow the roller-coaster ride of pageviews is becoming less bumpy. Average number of pageviews over this week: 81 within the range of 71-88. This trend has been here for at least a week now. I can expect roughly 70-80 views a day, every day [...]
Continue reading...Stoic psychological tactics part three: Fatalism
5 June 2009
This blogpost is part three in a series of five exploring the Stoic psychological tactics that can be used to rediscover joy in your life and is based on William Irvine’s A guide to the good life. Let go of the past and the present. That’s what fatalism is here. In certain religions and in [...]
Continue reading...Help out the Lifestyle Design bloggers community with this survey
3 June 2009
To help bring the community together Corbett Barr from Free Pursuits and Lea Woodward from Location Independent are hosting a “Location Independent and Digital Nomad Survey.” This survey is made for both those who are already location independent and those who aspire to be. Seeing as I somewhat write about lifestyle design and have touched the sbject [...]
Continue reading...Stoic psychological tactics part two: The Dichotomy of Control
2 June 2009
This blogpost is part two in a series of five exploring the stoic psychological tactics that can be used to rediscover joy in your life. This blogpost borrows heavily from William B Irvine’s A guide to the good life. Although I don’t cite him literally the info in this blogpost can be found in [...]
Continue reading...Stoic psychological tactics part one: Negative visualization
1 June 2009
This blogpost is part one of a series of five exploring the Stoic psychological tactics that can be used to rediscover joy in your life and is based on William Irvine’s A guide to the good life. Some of you might have already heard of the stoics or perhaps even read some of the [...]
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