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#123 William Irvine: How To Live a Stoic Life
The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish
The Greatest Emotions You Can Have
Stoics are people who don't experience emotions, and when life does something brutal to them, they just suck it up and stand there and take it. These people sound almost superhuman. For many of us who have more a difficulty dealing with that, it sounds like, oh, i could never do that. One of the stoic insights is that much of our unhappiness is self inflicted. It's a question of you framing the things that happen to you in a way that makes them not just more tolerable but where you can actually extract delight from them.
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