I love climbing up a good big and scary mountain. I hate, with all my heart though, the alpine morning.…
Affirmations Do Not Work, Do This Instead
Have you ever done morning affirmations? Like, “I’m awesome, I’m awesome, I’m awesome, ad infinitum”? I have. I don’t believe…...
The Importance of being OK with Rejection
“Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.”― Epictetus The…
How You See Stress Matters
It is not what things are objectively and in themselves, but what they are for us, in our way of looking…...
How To Be Comfortable With The Uncomfortable
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”― Marcus Aurelius I quit…
Response Control, Or How To Be Burned Alive And Be OK With It
“Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.” Buddha The man burning in the picture above is Thich Quang Duc. He was…...
Why It Is Hard To Understand Non-Freedom
Epictetus was a slave. That makes him interestingly different from the other prominent Stoics Marcus Aurelius and Seneca. Check out…
The One Thing You Need To Stop Getting Ready To Live And Live
“Well-being is attained by little and little, and nevertheless is no little thing itself.”
How To Get Out of Meaningless Suffering, the 5 Buddhist/Stoic Hindrances
“We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us…
How to Use Adversity to Live a Fulfilling Life
“Take example from the wrestling-masters. Has the boy fallen down? Get up, again, they say; wrestle again until you have made yourself strong. That’s the sort of attitude you should have…For both ruin and salvation have their source within you.”