5 Core Principles of Stoicism:
1. Focus on what you can control.
2. You control how you respond to things.
3. Ask yourself, “Is this essential?”
4. … - Ryan Holiday
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5 Core Principles of Stoicism:
1. Focus on what you can control. 2. You control how you respond to things. 3. Ask yourself, “Is this essential?” 4. Meditate on your mortality every day. 5. Value time more than money/possessions.
When intelligent people read, they ask themselves a simple question: What do I plan to do with this information?
To each,” Winston Churchill would say, “there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.
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And that’s what is so insidious about talk. Anyone can talk about himself or herself. Even a child knows how to gossip and chatter. Most people are decent at hype and sales. So what is scarce and rare? Silence. The ability to deliberately keep yourself out of the conversation and subsist without its validation. Silence is the respite of the confident and the strong.
