Soul in the Game: The Art of a Meaningful Life by Vitaliy Katsenelson

Author:Vitaliy Katsenelson [Katsenelson, Vitaliy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, General, Philosophy, Self-Help, Motivational & Inspirational
ISBN: 9780857199072
Google: nfxcEAAAQBAJ
Amazon: 0857199072
Publisher: Harriman House
Published: 2022-06-20T18:30:00+00:00

This story lacks drama and suffering (thank God). We simply called my father and asked him to bring us some gasoline. In the meantime, we played soccer and walked in the beautiful park. An hour later my father brought us the gas.

My kids and I filed this little misadventure as a happy memory of when we ran out of gas in the park and did fun things. My wife put it into the mental file of when I forgot to check if we had enough gas in our (her) car before we started driving.

I wasn’t a practicing Stoic then, but I did manage to avoid blaming either myself or my wife for not putting gas in her car. Once we were out of gas, nothing we could do would change that fact – it was an external. What I could control was my response to the situation. I chose to look at the situation as an adventure rather than a calamity. I reframed it. Though I didn’t know it at the time, I was taking a Stoic quiz – and I passed that one with flying colors.

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