Category: Philosophy

Ignore It?

Should one just ignore the news?

It is usually of the clamorous and disastrous variety. So it is is a huge stressor, and who needs the stress? Plus, one can’t do much about whatever it is anyway.

So why pay any attention to it at all? Just ignore it, for one’s mental health.

In Stoicism, they tell you to concentrate on what is under your control, but ignore everything else — that would include the news, in my opinion

You see these people who never miss a single headline, and it is just making them crazier, although they may not realize it.

Nutrition and Health

Discipline

When you must do something but you don’t want to — that’s discipline.

It is like a muscle. The more you are able to do it, the stronger it becomes. Conversely, the more you fail to do it, the weaker.

You can’t achieve anything without discipline. There isn’t much you can’t achieve with it.

Heroes

Stay Positive

They tell you to stay positive. Yet circumstances may not allow you to be positive. If the circumstances you are facing are harsh enough, then it becomes virtually impossible to “stay positive” — the likely outcome is too depressing.

But if there is some light at the end of the tunnel — real light, not false hope — then the fresh air of actually being positive, as opposed to the shallow trick of telling yourself to stay positive, breezes in and resuscitates.

True Grit