As an example, we can imagine that we have suffered a great loss or the death of someone we love. Not only will this practice heighten our appreciation of what we have, ensuring that we do not take it for granted; but if such a loss or death does occur, we will be in the position...
Stop worrying about what you can not controlAs we begin to examine our life, Soupios says, we come to Rule No. 出自-2016年6月阅读原文 So what Epictetus would say is sitting at home worrying about that would be wrong and wasteful and irrational. 出自-2016年6月阅读原文 It is more costly...
This idea about how our interpretation of events matters is not new. Nearly 2000 years ago the Greek philosopher Epictetus said: “Men are disturbed, not by things, but by the principles and notions which they form concerning things.”Epictetus [1] ...
Epictetus also said “the more we value things outside our control, the less control we have” and I like what Voltaire wrote about “life is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats.” Patience is a virtue “No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bu...
So you bump into these people. You bump into Epictetus who wrote a book, he was a slave in Rome. It wasn't a book at the time but now it was put together a book called The Art of Living, and so what I'm saying is if you just do a deep search for things that have stood th...
potentially selling our integrity for a short term bump in marketing. As the stoic Epictetus once said, “Consider at what price you sell your integrity; but please, for God’s sake, don’t sell it cheap.” While marketing is important to spread the word and make a name for yourself, ...
[illegitimate child], was teaching at the Cynosarges; beside Diogenes, his own pupil and the subsequent head of Cynicism; and so on and so forth, in a long line of esteemed philosophers from Diogenes to Crates to Zeno of Citium, the founder of Stoicism, and later to Epictetus and even ...
A fortnight before his death, the Bradlees had spent a glamorous weekend with the Kennedys at their new retreat in Middleburg, Va. On Nov. 22, 1963, “life changed, forever, in the middle of a nice day, at the end of a good week, in a wonderful year of what looked like an ...
By giving our mind—our rational faculty—time to itself for “contemplation of itself.” Here, Seneca echoes Epictetus’ confidence in our rational faculty’s self-judging and self-healing capabilities (Discourses1.1). Nonetheless, we must create the time and space for our mind to work on itse...
We quickly discover what HAL does think about it. He treats the threat of disconnection as a death threat, and reacts accordingly, but this does not explain why he made the faulty diagnosis in the first place. Was it deliberate, to entice one or both of the crew outside so they could...