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April 13th: Less is more

Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

Don't act grudgingly, selfishly, without due diligence, or to be an contrarian. Don't overdress your thought in fine language. Don't be a person of too many words and too many deeds... Be cheerful, not wanting outside help or the relief others might bring. A person needs to stand on their own, not be propped up. ~Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 3.5

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May 17th: The Stoic is work in progress

Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

Show me someone's sick and happy, in danger and happy, disgraced and happy. Show me! By God, how much I'd like to see a Stoic. But since you can't show me someone that perfectly formed, at least show me someone actively forming themselves so, inclined in this way... Show me! ~Epictetus, Discourses, 2.19.24-25a,28

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[Javits Wild] When he was in the country, he always asked the people he chanced to meet what "normal life" was like, because he had forgotten. The answers varied, and he gradually came to realize that, even when he was surrounded by other people, he was absolutely alone in the world. He decided to draw up a list of what constituted normal attitudes and behavior, based on what people did rather than on what they said.

Normal is anything that makes us forget who we are and what we want; that way we can work in order to produce, reproduce, and earn money.
Setting out rules for waging war (the Geneva Convention).
Spending years studying at university only to find at the end of it all that you're unemployable.

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The Greatest Commandment

Mark 12:28-31 New International Version (NIV)

²⁸One of the teachers of the law came and heard them debating. Noticing that Jesus had given them a good answer, he asked him, “Of all the commandments, which is the most important?”

²⁹“The most important one,” answered Jesus, “is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. ³⁰Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ ³¹The second is this: ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no commandment greater than these.”

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June 8th: Brick by boring brick

Ryan Holiday, The 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

You must build up your life action by action, and be content if each one achieves its goal as as far as possible —and no one can keep you from this. But there will be some external obstacle! Perhaps, but no obstacle is acting with justice, self control, and wisdom. But what if some other area of my action is thwarted? Well, gladly accept the obstacle for what it is and shift your attention to what is given, and another action will immediately take its place, one that better fits the life you are building. —Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 8.32

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There are three areas in which the person who would be wise and good must be trained. The first has to do with desires and aversions- that a person may never miss the mark in desires nor fall into what repels them. The second has to do with impulses to act and not to act- and more broadly, with duty- that a person may act deliberately for good reasons and not carelessly. The third has to do with freedom from deception and composure and the whole area of judgment, the assent our mind gives to its perceptions. Of these areas, the chief and most urgent is the first which has to do with passions, for strong emotions arise only when we fail in our desires and aversions.

—Epictetus, Discourses, 3.2.1-3a

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