Live Like a Stoic by Massimo Pigliucci

Author:Massimo Pigliucci
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781473562455
Publisher: Ebury Publishing
Published: 2019-05-08T16:00:00+00:00

Now that you have your three questions at hand, your goal for this week is to answer them each night.

Seneca claims that this type of reflective journaling leads to sound sleep and peace of mind. That may sound a little strange. How can meditating on our character flaws put our minds at ease? First, remember that this exercise should be accompanied by self-compassion; your past actions are in the past, and therefore out of your control. You are meditating to improve your character. Second, thinking about past mistakes can help you generate action plans for improvement, which will allow you to mold yourself into the person you’d like to be. Finally, both Epictetus’s and Seneca’s prompts explicitly encourage acknowledging what you’ve done well over the course of your day. Take some time to appreciate your decisions—again, not for the sake of vanity, but in order to learn from yourself, and to feel that some good has come from your day in the process.

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