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#421: Why You Need a Philosophical Survival Kit

The Art of Manliness

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The Stockdale Paradox

The Stockdale Paradox is that sometimes being too optimistic can actually make you less resilient, eat a little depressive realism. While he was in prison, Stockdale took this to heart. His leg was broken when he ejected and then it was broken again when he was in torture. He tried not to focus on the pain and tried because he could control that. Another passage from Stockdale, remember that you're an actor in a drama of such short as the author chooses,. If long, then a long one. And if it be his pleasure that you should enact a poor man or a cripple or a ruler or a private citizen, see that you act well. For this is your business to

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