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How to Beat Temptation Like a Stoic (opens the original)
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Think about the last time you gave in to something you had promised yourself you would skip. Nobody forced you, and you probably knew exactly what you were doing while your thumb did it anyway. Twenty minutes later you were back where you started, only more tired and a little more disappointed in yourself. For some, this might take sooner. Your phone lights up dozens of times a day, the next episode starts before the credits finish, and much of what you crave can reach your door within the hour.
Why do people fail to succeed (opens the original)
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Stoicism would challenge the modern definition of success.For the Stoics, success was not primarily money, recognition, status, followers, or winning. Those things may be desirable, but they are external. The deeper measure of a successful life was whether you developed good judgment, self-control, courage, discipline, and the ability to act well regardless of circumstances.From that perspective, people often fail not because they lack opportunity, intelligence, or talent, but because they repea
Your Pain Needs No Audience (opens the original)
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Seneca, writing to a friend worn down by a lingering illness, set down a line that rarely appears on the quote cards that carry his more polished sayings, and in my own loose rendering of the Latin it says that each of us is exactly as wretched as we have persuaded ourselves to be. I keep this sentence close because our age has found a new way of persuading ourselves, in which hardship is photographed, captioned and measured by how many strangers pause over it. Some of us romanticise our pain un
Caring for Your Parents and Your Children at the Same Time (opens the original)
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Picture the hour before dinner in your mid-forties, when the day’s work is barely finished and the evening’s work has already begun. Your phone buzzes with a message from your mother, who has decided for the third time this month that she no longer needs her blood pressure tablets, while down the hall your twelve-year-old announces, with the urgency of a fire alarm, that a school project due tomorrow has only just been discovered. You stand in the kitchen between two doorways with a spoon over a
How Can One Person Build Everything (opens the original)
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When I open my laptop or any digital device and go to today’s most popular social media networks, I see people boasting about their achievements and the progress they have made in life. Some go beyond all limits and narrow everything down to one idea, which is that they succeeded alone. No team, no investor, no lucky introduction, nothing except one person, one laptop, and an unreasonable amount of discipline.Before I take that claim apart, I want to give it the respect it deserves, because a ve
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