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fromPsychology Today
1 day ago

How to Cope With Bad News

Contextualization, negative visualization, and transformation are three Stoic cognitive strategies that reframe bad news to generate perspective, resilience, and constructive emotional responses.
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fromPsychology Today
2 days ago

Mind Games Feel Like Magic Tricks, but Stoicism Cuts Through

Subtle psychological cues and storytelling bias perception; disciplined attention and Stoic training reveal and resist influence used in entertainment, negotiations, and persuasion.
fromPsychology Today
3 days ago

How the Ancients Coped With Grief and Loss

The Stoic Seneca (d. 65 CE) is the master of the "consolation," a letter written for the express purpose of comforting someone who has been bereaved. Seneca wrote at least three consolations, to Marcis, to Polybius, and to Helvia. In the Consolation to Helvia, he comforts his own mother Helvia on "losing" him to exile-an unusual case, and literary innovation, of the lamented consoling the lamenter.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

How to Take a Stoic Punch in the Face

Training the brain to restore rational control after stress turns physical and social pain into fuel for resilience, wise choice, and continued engagement.
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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

The Stoic View of Suicide

Stoics rejected suicide from despair yet approved rational suicide when death preserved virtue, dignity, or freedom, exemplified by Cato, Socrates, and Metellus.
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fromBig Think
1 week ago

Ask these 3 "Naikan" questions for a happier, healthier attitude toward life

Gratitude practices like Stoic reflection and Naikan therapy cultivate appreciation, perspective, and reduced entitlement by examining what one receives, gives, and the troubles one causes.
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fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

Outrage Hijacks Your Brain. Stoicism Can Reclaim It.

Outrage is a profitable business model that hijacks emotion; Stoic practice restores reason and calm as effective resistance.
fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

How to Banish Anger Forever, According to Philosophy

Anger is a bad habit that people tend to pick up from their parents. When a child who was raised at Plato's house was returned to his parents and witnessed his father shouting, he said, 'I never saw this at Plato's house.'
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fromPsychology Today
2 weeks ago

How to Banish Negative Emotions

We must learn to distinguish between things that are within our control and those that are not. The only thing entirely within our own control is our mind.
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fromIndependent
2 months ago

Julia Molony: Marine Le Pen opens a new front in France's class war: the right to air con

Extreme heat in Europe has led to a palpable atmosphere of stoicism among residents.
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Artificial intelligence
fromInverse
3 months ago

'Inzoi' vs The Sims: How South Korea's AI Life Sim Accidentally Became a Philosophy Lesson

Inzoi integrates Stoic philosophy into a life simulation game, offering players a unique perspective on realism and emotional resilience.
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fromwww.nytimes.com
4 months ago

Opinion | Naval Academy Censors Ryan Holiday's Lecture on Censorship

The cancellation of a lecture on Stoicism reflects growing concerns about academic freedom and open discourse at educational institutions.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
4 months ago

The Wake-Up Call We Don't Want-But Might Need

Real change necessitates stepping outside of comfort zones.
Near misses, loss, and burnout can awaken individuals to seek genuine transformation.
Stoic negative visualization allows for contemplating loss to inspire change without actual suffering.
fromPsychology Today
4 months ago

How Excitement and Joy Can Disrupt Athletic Performance

Emotion is one big thing out of our control, which many people don't seem to understand. Feelings are inevitable and unavoidable. However, excessively focusing on them can hinder performance.
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