Stoicism

Maintaining tranquility

Stoic tranquility is a psychological state marked by the absence of negative emotions, such as grief, anger, and anxiety, and the presence of positive emotions, such as joy.

Negative Visualisation

• Gratitude/ Appreciation
• Hedonic Adaptation/ Boredom
• Impermanence

Trichotomy of control

• Internal/External goals

Fatalism

Embrace the moment instead of wishing it were different

Temperance

• Voluntary discomfort/voluntary denial of pleasure
• Willpower is a muscle
• Evolutionary autopilot vs stoic

Social duty

• Love mankind. Man is a social animal
• Slave to fame or fortune
• Indifferent to others

Meditate on your practice

Practise courage

• Lean into your fears

We suffer more in our imagination than in reality