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How Should We Manage Changes in Fortune? - Coggle Diagram
How Should We Manage Changes in Fortune?
You are able to control your reponse, you cannot control the event that causes it
Marcus Aurelius:
external forces cannot really touch your mind unless your inner beliefs let them.
"Everything is as you take it to be"
Anger = weakness, which he argues is the same as giving into pain
He says how you should treat everyone with kindness and justice, even if they are not the best people
expand your life one action at a time, and if it does not workout, try a different action to see if that works better
Confucius:
the Junzi is steadfast, but it is not rigid.
" if you do not know your destiny, you cannot be a junk"
There is not one universal use for the junzi
Junzi thinks in terms of being right, a small man in eyes of profit
Errors are like eclipses; everyone sees them, but then they are fixed
Happiness requires some fortune, but only so much
Aristotle
Happiness = virtuous activity over a complete life
Aristotle
you still need some external goods (like friends)
"One swallow does not make a summer"
He also argues that a good person will make the best with what they are dealt.
He also says that wealth is also only useful, but it should never be the end game
Struggle is often a part of the bigger picture, it is not usually the obstacle
Happiness isnt immunity to hardship, but it is antifragile to it
If you chase happiness directly, it is like "staring at the sun"
Sad, negative emotions are apart of happiness, but not a failure of it
"SPIRE" - Spiritual, phsyical, intellectual, relational, emotional well-being
Ben-shahar
If you chase happiness directly, it is like "staring at the sun"
Sad, negative emotions are apart of happiness, but not a failure of it
"SPIRE" - Spiritual, phsyical, intellectual, relational, emotional well-being
(Etinson)
A world without struggle might not feel like happiness at
mill imagined all his goals achieved → "no!"
schopenhauer: life swings b/w pain and boredom
retirement: orienting goal, disorienting reality
mill healed through wordsworth: quiet joy in
Modern fortune is built by humans
(Wealthy, successful, miserable)
"good fortune" often does fail to deliver the happiness people thinks it does
If they got rejected early, people tend to learn what matters more
The man making $1.2 million a year felt like he was wasting his life
Janitors who saw their job as healing felt more fulfilled
(the most rehjected generation)
mass rejection is now apart of younger generations culture
when rejected, people get harsher, less empathetic, and crave security more