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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, a beginning a technique on stoicism is a what's called negative visualization. This is two minutes that could change your life. Or or maybe not, but we'll see. So for instance, you can imagine it can be a child in your life. It can be a spouse or partner in your life and even your job. 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. But i'm going to ask you to open your eyes

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