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My Stoic Thoughts: Day Five Stoic Week 2020

Stoic Week 2020 Friday, October 23rd, 2020 Theme:  Emotions Stoics are not emotionless, contrary to popular belief.  If they were, I’d be a horrible Stoic as I frequently experience Joy, delight, contentment, excitement, and wonder.  Instead of being emotionless, Stoics distinguished between both good emotions and bad emotions or passions.  Passions are misguided feelings that…
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My Stoic Thoughts: Day Three Stoic Week 2020

Stoic Week 2020 Wednesday, October 21st, 2020 Theme:  Virtue I started my examination of Stoic Virtue by listing the qualities I thought were needed to live a good life.  Afterwards, I compared them to the four cardinal Stoic Virtues of Wisdom, Courage, Justice, and Self-Control/Moderation.  (See picture above for my lovely handwriting, and if you’re…
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My Stoic Thoughts: Days 6 & 7 of Stoic Week 2019

Stoic Week 2019 Saturday, October 12th, 2019 Theme:  Resilience:  Resilience and Preparation for Adversity Stoic resilience is not about being an emotionless rock unaffected by the world around oneself.  Unfortunate things will befall the Stoic, however they will not be overly emotionally reactive when these things occur.  This is not a natural response. You are…
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My Stoic Thoughts: Day 5 of Stoic Week 2019

Stoic Week 2019 Friday, October 11th, 2019 Theme:  Emotions:  Values and the Passions Our judgments of things harm us (and our relationships with others) more than the things themselves.  We are more to blame than what is outside ourselves, however it is best to accept things as they are, attributing no blame to self or…
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My Stoic Thoughts: Day 3 of Stoic Week 2019

Stoic Week 2019 Wednesday, October 9th, 2019 Theme:  Virtue: Clarifying Your Values When we say virtue, we do not mean virginal or chaste or however its mostly interpreted today.  Instead, virtue can be understood as the qualities a person possesses (and will express) that enable us to lead a happy life (you know, one according…
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My Stoic Thoughts: Day 1 of Stoic Week 2019

Stoic Week 2019 Monday, October 7th, 2019 Theme:  Progress Reflecting on this morning’s meditation: Every day provides us with the opportunity to make progress in virtue and movement toward happiness, freedom from passions, and serenity.  So long as we make progress toward virtue, no matter how small, the day was worth it, and was not…
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