Stoics
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10 statements about Stoics, every show
Holiday: Tying joy strictly to favorable circumstances leaves happiness out of control
“I think when the Stoics talk about joy, they are trying to remind you that if joy for you is only possible when things are going amazing, your joy or your happiness is therefore out of your hands.”
Holiday: Most personal and historical mistakes stem from primal emotional passions
“I would say at the root of most mistakes, both personally and sort of historically it's one of the passions, right? Envy, lust, anger, fear you know, pain you know, the, those sort of emotional states that take us out of the rational part of ourselves and into…”
Holiday: Passions like anger and fear cause most historical mistakes
“At the root of most mistakes, both personally and sort of historically it's one of the passions, right? Envy, lust, anger, fear you know, pain you know, the, those sort of emotional states that take us out of the rational part of ourselves and into some sort o…”
Sherman: Stoic resilience uses conditional clauses to avoid rigid attachment
“The Stoics sort of have this idea that you put this little if clause, we're going to do it unless, or if it doesn't, and you're going to be really responsive to what the conditions are in that clause, such that if things change, you're going to change your int…”
Sherman: Classical Stoics view emotions as cognitive beliefs, not mere impulses
“They're essentially belief theorists about emotion, so they're cognitivists, which means it's not only an impulse that you give rise to, but it's a kind of belief.”
Sherman: Stoics developed the ancient world's most sophisticated emotion theory
“If you really read more deeply, the Stoics with a big S have the most sophisticated emotion theory there is in the ancient world.”
Irvine: Ancient Stoics were cheerful individuals focused on preventing negative emotions
“The Stoics themselves were remarkably well-adjusted people. They were known to those who they lived with as cheerful individuals because they weren't anti-emotion. What they were out to do is minimize negative emotions, and they weren't out to stifle negative …”
Irvine: Preparing for worst-case loss cultivates profound gratitude and joy
“The Stoics can be regarded as emotional preppers. So what were they doing? They were preparing for things to become dramatically worse. They were preparing to lose the things they value in life. And that can sound like a really negative approach to things, exc…”
Irvine: Ancient Stoic propositional logic powers modern computing and cell phones
“They were in first century AD, they were the prime logicians of their time, and they were very good at propositional logic, which is what makes modern computers and your cell phone Work.”
Stoicism offers a competitive advantage by focusing purely on internal reactions
“If I was to sort of sum up the central maxim there, it would be, you don't control the world around you control how you control your thoughts, you control how you respond to the world around you, and so the Stoics are Focused exclusively on that stuff, and tha…”