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The Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks

CHAPTER

The Importance of Stoicism

With Buddhism there's a lot of focus on training in compassion and various visualizations to help you become more compassionate are there also exercises in stoicism or any kind of focuses on on becoming more compassionate? The way that so many people would say that the way stoicism is often presented as a form of self-help it is not quite a caricature but i kind of watered down version of stoicism. It tends to emphasize self-discipline and to ignore the whole social dimension of stoicism like we can't excel unless we live in harmony with other individuals and with society as a whole.

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