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How To Practice Stoicism
What pops into your mind when you think of stoicism?
Is it the image of Marcus Aurelius, calm and collected, writing in his journal?
Maybe it is Seneca who comes to mind, meditating on life and death, writing age-old advice we still rely upon to this day.
Or maybe, you don’t even know what stoicism is and who these people are.
Maybe you know who they are and follow the advice but never bothered to find what stoicism actually means.
With that in mind, and before moving on to sharing one of the best ways to practice this timeless advice, I’ll give you the definition.
Stoicism: an ancient Greek school of philosophy founded at Athens by Zeno of Citium. The school taught that virtue, the highest good, is based on knowledge; the wise live in harmony with the divine Reason (also identified with Fate and Providence) that governs nature, and are indifferent to the vicissitudes of fortune and to pleasure and pain.
In other words, it is the philosophy that believes in accepting the current reality, while always striving to make it the best it could be, without attachment to success, failure, and the emotions that come with both.
In essence, to be stoic is to practice those virtues.
