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Stoic - Coggle Diagram
Stoic
Externals
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Events aren't good or evil in themselves, only in our judgement of them.
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Add nothing to externals - just say exactly what it is. Be very literal about what it is, subtracting meaning from it can help.
People are also external - try to see them as they are, doing the same things that all humans do.
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Judgement
- The General Principle
Our experience of the world is produced by our judgements and opinions of it, not the world itself.
- Stoic Practice
With practice, and to varying degrees, judgement and opinions can be changed, thereby changing our experience of the world.
- Comparisons
First, see if a judgement is obviously generated by mood and seems unreasonable later.If not, compare the judgement to:
- one made by yourself in a different place or time
- one made by another person to the same input
See that this means the judgement can be changed.
- Metaphors and analogies
"The soul is like a bowl of water with light shining on it, when the water is disturbed, the light also seems disturbed, yet it is not.""When it comes to perceiving reality, our minds are in a fog."
- Implications
"Pay attention to your impressions, watch over them without sleeping, for what you guard is no small thing: self-respect, fidelity and self-possession, a mind free from emotion, pain, fear, disturbance - in a word, freedom."