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OCD – An Indifferent, Not An Excuse
If superstar footballer David Beckham wants to put a can of pop in his fridge, his obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) immediately causes him a problem: ‘I’ve got this obsessive compulsive disorder...
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Stoic Facts About Insults That Will Impress Your Friends
Insults. We all get them from time to time. Even small negative criticisms can affect us for a long time. We dwell upon them and the intentions behind them. In this post I explore how we can stoically...
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Stoicism – A Visual Guide
Stoicism: Pictures not Words Stoicism helps to formulate a coherent philosophy of life. Stoics thought that the best indication of an individual’s philosophy was not what a person said but how that...
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Resolutions: Why You’ll Never Succeed This New Year
Resolutions, we all set them when a New Year comes around. We start to believe that we can improve our lives. We are going to change for the better. We are not going to be stuck in the same old rut...
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Suffering, Death, and Routine – Letter 24
In this series of blog posts I attempt to translate the Moral letters to Lucilius by Seneca into modern English. In letter 24 Seneca describes Death, Routine and Suffering. Suffering – life is full of...
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Why I Don’t Love Luck (And Why You Shouldn’t Too!)
People are irrational. They believe in luck. One manifestation of this is the scramble to buy National Lottery tickets. As of last October last year you had around a one in 14 million chance of...
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Robots, Taxation and Slavery
Most people misunderstand Stoicism. They believe that Stoics are unemotional robots. It’s this misconception that draws me, from time to time, to think about the role of robots in society today. And...
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Amor Fati: How To Learn To Love Your Choices
Choices: The world is what it is. The things that happen to us, are what they are. People will do what they do. A huge source of unhappiness, in my opinion, is the inability most of us have is...
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The Transformative Power of Stoic Gratitude
How much gratitude do you show? Many studies have shown a clear correlation between gratitude and increased well-being. This is not only for the individual but for all people involved. The positive...
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Stoicism and the Valley of Unhappiness
Middle age has always been an unhappiness battlefield. In this post I explore how to avoid these feelings. To get out of the expected valley of unhappiness. To take action to spend time with those who...
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Instead of Goals, Try Creating Stoic Rules
Rules can simply your life. They can make it easier to live virtuously. To develop as a person. To strive to become better. In this post I explore a few ideas to base your rules around key Stoic...
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Stoicism When You’re Lonely
Feelings of being lonely are on the rise. In this post I explore a few ideas about how Stoicism could help to combat this. Coping with this, accepting it, and learning how to direct our own lives with...
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Does Stoicism Still Have A Legacy?
The Legacy of Stoicism Stoicism, the third great philosophy of the Ancient World. It still has a huge amount to teach us, especially in these emotion-saturated times. What’s more, the Stoic legacy has...
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Simple Steps to a Virtuous Life of Purpose
Purpose: do you have one? Are you unsure to your passion and your direction in life? Don’t worry as you’re not alone. Most people are in the same situation. This post provides a few pointers to how you...
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Why Death Is Only A Problem For The Living
Max Edwards is 16 and death is imminent. Five months ago, he was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He now measures time in distinct chunks, focusing on events – a holiday or a party. In this article I...
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A New Way To Think About Negativity
Negativity. At times we all fall prey to lingering on the less than positive. We may wallow in self-pity and turn tiny things into a huge dramas. In this post I share a few stoic related ideas to...
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Facing Fear The Right Way
I think most of us have one fear or another. A fear may lurk in our subconscious mind. Hidden away in a dark corner. A fear that you’d rather not confront head on. Something that you wish would go...
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How to be a Spiritual Stoic
Often people say they are ‘spiritual.’ When they do, what thoughts spring to mind? Is this an expression of belief, of faith or something else? If a person is spiritual, does that mean they reject...
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How to do your Stoic Duty
Should you have a duty to others, even if they are not virtuous? In Book II of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius he suggests: When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today...
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Why Stoics Should Love The Golden Rule
Do you follow the Golden Rule? This is a moral maxim or principle of altruism found in many human cultures and religions. It goes something like: Treat others as you would like to be treated yourself....
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