Posts Tagged with "Stoicism"
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Saturday sneaked up on me again. Had a long night celebrating my girlfriend’s graduation. Talking with friends and listening to music. It’s warm here (somewhere around 30 degrees Celsius) and I’m writing this while the neighbourhood cat is purring at my feet while sitting outside in the shade. Average number of pageviews over this week: [...]
Continue reading...Stoic psychological tactics part five: meditation
Wednesday, June 10, 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
Monday, June 8, 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...Stoic psychological tactics part three: Fatalism
Friday, June 5, 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...Stoic psychological tactics part two: The Dichotomy of Control
Tuesday, June 2, 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
Monday, June 1, 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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