Stoic Reflections
@StoicReflctions
Philosophy for high achievers
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Creator of The Original Memento Mori Life Calendar
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Are you aware of this?
Do you worry too much?
What’s do you fear most? Death or Underachievement?
Do you worry too much?
Do you agree with Freud?
Which do you choose?
Most people plan their future in detail.
Then go home and do the same things they did yesterday.
What did your habits say about your future today?
Do you live with regrets?
Has this been true for you?
Thoughts on mind-body connection?
How are you preparing for your next opportunity?
Easy to spot a yellow car when you are always thinking of a yellow car.
Easy to spot opportunity when you are always thinking of opportunity.
Easy to spot reasons to be mad when you are always thinking of being mad.
You become what you constantly think about. Watch yourself.
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If you are a puppet of your lowest instincts you will be puppeteered by anyone who can provoke them.
Traveler: What kind of weather are we going to have today?
Shepherd: The kind of weather I like.
Traveler: How do you know it will be the kind of weather you like?
Shepherd: Having found out, sir, I cannot always get what I like, I have learned always to like what I get. So I am quite sure we will have the kind of weather I like.
—Anthony de Mello, S.J. in The Heart of the Enlightened
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Your identity isn’t built in big moments. It’s built in the tiny decisions nobody sees.
The alarm you snoozed. The page you read. The conversation you avoided. Every one of them is a vote.
What did you vote for this week?
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Where’s your attention right now, and is it where it should be?
