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#123 William Irvine: How To Live a Stoic Life

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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How to Train Yourself to Be More Stoic

How do we train ourselves to be more stoic? My favorite technique is a what's called negative visualization. So imagine that you've lost your job, and then snap out of it and go on with life. You're one of the luckiest individuals ever inhabit the universe. And yet, if you have the wrong frame of mind, you know, poor, poor, pitiful me,. somebody feels sorry for me. Look how terrible it is.

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