Emotional Intelligence Encyclopedia: Control Your Emotions, create a Huge Vision of Your Future and Follow It. Learn how to Achieve the Hardest Goals and ... Law of Attraction (THE X SERIE$ Book 36) by X MI$TER

Author:X, MI$TER [X, MI$TER]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2020-10-20T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 2: Take responsibility: get good from yourself

The Stoic Happiness Triangle's last corner is founded upon the first two; they are making this third corner possible. The first theory allows living with areté or voicing the highest self, the most pleasant, while the latter teaches us that external conditions are not essential to the good life as they are not within our influence. That implies that isté alone is enough for the good life, and it makes us accountable for our own flourishing as it is beyond our power.

That is "Stoicism 's hardest and most attractive dimension," as Donald Robertson puts it, for the obligation deprives us of all reasons for not attaining the peaceful and easily running life we, all strive to. They are the only ones who deter us from practicing moral behavior, and we are the only ones who discourage us from enjoying the good life.

It's beyond our power to stay with areté

+ Issues outside our grasp are meaningless to a happier existence

= Areté living is beyond our power + sufficiently for a good existence.

It helps us to assume responsibility for our own fulfilled lives.

Let's unfold a little further on this. The end target is eudaimonia — a career running peacefully and effortlessly. The Stoics established another aim to accomplish that objective: life with areté or living in peace with nature. To add justification behind our thoughts and behavior is human nature. Therefore, the aim of living with areté is to add justification to our acts and always seek to convey our highest version of ourselves.

It is, in modern words, a target for the method. The Stoics concentrated not on the potential outcome (a happier life) but on the cycle in the present moment (living with areté) that eventually would contribute to the desired outcome. That insistence on the cycle is what renders us primarily accountable for our own success as practicing Stoics, as we are in charge of the method. Although external factors can hinder the result, the cycle and our actions are being performed in the present moment, so nothing beyond our influence will deter it.

"The wise man looks to the intent of his acts, not their results, as Seneca puts it; origins are in our hands. However, Fate decides the result, and I don't give her judgment on me."

Stoicism argues that we are all highly accountable for our own joy and unhappiness. It also explains that taking this obligation would make our chances of achieving eudaimonia much higher. On the other side, the victim mentality — which blames outside conditions for our unhappiness — will make happier existence an unlikely task to attain.

We ought to hesitate to allow the cards that we are playing to determine our well-being. The Stoics believe that things beyond and others can have the ability to influence how and even how you survive, but they don't have the power to destroy our lives. Just you will wreck your future by being jerked about by circumstances that you don't manage and refusing to behave only as good as you should.

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