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I don't really do new year's resolutions. If there is something important that I need to change in my life, I try to change it immediately (if I am ready). Waiting for the new year to make a change is not really intrinsically motivated.

With that being said, I want to learn about stoicism a little bit more and recently got a book called the Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday. It has entries for each day of the year intended to motivate you to live with a stoic philosophy. I'm going to attempt to post those entries daily starting on January 1st. Look for my GM posts if interested and share your thoughts with me on this journey 🫡

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maya 1w ago

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Mines is being a better version of myself 😉😍

MAHDOOD 1w ago 💬 1

What signs would you see that tell you that you accomplished this? 💜🫂

maya 1w ago

I'm spreading love More 💜🫂

Toxic Bitcoiner 1w ago

Ryan Holiday was a covid hysteric vaxx zealot. Unsure how much of his commentary there is. You could go to the source with Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.

Chris Liss 1w ago

I also remember that. Disqualifying for me.

MAHDOOD 1w ago

There is no one on earth who you will agree with on every single topic. Take the good and leave the bad 🤷‍♂

Chris Liss 1w ago

I agree with this generally, but not in this case. Was such a total and catastrophic epistemic failure, has to be owned for credibility to be retained. Not like we disagree about whether tariffs are a good idea.

MAHDOOD 1w ago

I haven't seen his opinions on covid but if he came out and said he was wrong about his views on covid, would you change your mind about his books?

Chris Liss 1w ago

More than “wrong” but owned his shilling of the mRNA poison with sufficient contrition, then yes I would consider whatever he had to say.

MAHDOOD 1w ago

Assuming he does all these things, nothing has changed regarding the content/value of his books. So why not just take the good and leave the bad?

Chris Liss 1w ago

If he were a novelist or a poet maybe. But his books are about to live one’s life, which makes it hard to take seriously if you don’t respect the guy.

MAHDOOD 1w ago

Well this book is talking about stoicism from the teachings of other stoic philosophers. But it’s up to you if you wanna ignore it.

MAHDOOD 1w ago

I've read meditations but there are a lot more stoic philosophers out there that offer valuable insight. Aurelius was an emperor with a unique perspective but I'm not an emperor. Gathering more perspectives is still valuable.

Sleventy3 1w ago

Was going to suggest this too.

Stoicism is a state of mind. A perception of your reality.

A way to not let externalities bother you and shake your way of being.

For example. I said lets go dutch to a group of friends while eating out.

One member at the table got offended because 'I insulted a group of people'

That person is not at inner peace if a word offends them enough to show distress.

muq raker 1w ago

Look up anything you can find about Diogenes. He's not exactly a stoic but the stoics definitely respected him. Diogenes didn't write anything down but he lived by example his philosophy and he adhered to it without fail. Many of his teachings aligned with stoicism, but they diverge because society saw Diogenes on the surface and without context it was abrasive and off putting. He seems more comfortable than the richest person on earth and he has nothing. He saw a child drinking water from his cupped hands at the trough and promptly discarded his cup. He slept amongst stray dogs because he found no virtue in the structure of society and the short sighted nature of the people in charge so he provided them with an example of his enlightened philosophy while eating hand outs, assaulting the rich, and masturbating in public. Alexander the Great said if he could be anyone in the world he would be Diogenes.

MAHDOOD 1w ago

I believe this book talks about him so eventually will get there 🫡