Deal with it or it will deal with you.
Category: Philosophy
Stoicism
Don’t just react emotionally. Think first, then act with deliberation after assessing your options.
The more you practice doing this, the easier it gets. Muscle memory.
Inner Demon
How to turn off the inner critic?
Ageless
While the body ages and shrivels, what’s in your heart always remains the same.
Two Roman Standards
Two Roman standards that are worth considering: carpe diem and amor fati. Carpe diem is the easy one, amor fati the difficult one.
Unique
Each snowflake is unique, so why should we be any different?
Mistakes
Despite constant mistakes, the ship carries on.
Kindness
Be kind to yourself.
Trust
How large is your “trust horizon”? It is OK for it to be small.
Freedom from Death
When you make it to your 70s, and even earlier for some, you begin to see death as real and much more likely, even conceivably in the short term, than when you were younger and death was mere abstraction.
This realization brings with it a kind of acceptance — that your time now is indeed limited and no matter what you do, your death is unavoidable. This realization, oddly enough, introduces a strange kind of fatalism that frees one from being too concerned with death.
And that fatalism gives one a new kind of liberation from the fear of death when you completely accept the fact that you will indeed die and perhaps sooner rather than later.
