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November 2 - November 10, 2022
A core practice of the Stoic way of life is repetition of the good dogmas, to replace the old ones that cause angst and anxiety.
Are you content with living a miserable or barely tolerable life most of the time so as to be able to enjoy few and far between happy moments? Sounds more like a prison sentence than an enjoyable
life.
Live every day by a set of rules, mantras, and dogma and work your way toward becoming a philosopher king.
Train yourself to fight the Autonomous Loop so as to see the world as it is, not the way you see it. View things in an objective manner by looking at them through other pairs of eyes. Routinely declutter the mind.
To make good, rational decisions, take a step back and make sure you have all the information, not just the information you see.
The second rule is to see things through many pairs of eyes. Your mind is subjective to your reality. And so every other person who has their own reality will see things from a whole other subjective perspective. This is a simple, yet significant point.
The lesson here is that by viewing the problem, issue, or event through other pairs of eyes, you can harness an objective view, or at least get closer to it than merely looking at it from your own perspective, which is biased.
The day you die is not death. Every day is death. Every day is another day gone by that you will not get back.
