1. Ignore what others are doing 2. Your reality is made by your opinions 3. Do less 4. Death is knocking at your door 5. You're stronger than you think 6. You are rising for the work of mankind 7. Never complain 8. You can live happy anywhere 9. Help the common good 10. Be grateful for your blessing cheers!
I have kept my progress in a book, i'm crossing off every day i haven't looked at social media, cross off everytime i train, write down important life lessons from either psychology or stoic teachings/mindsets.. And it feels absolutely amazing, no more feelings of missing something, no more jealousy, no more un-important news, no more hysterical events, no more drama and stress! I really recommend it!
Stopped social media/TV about 5 years ago. I was so intellectually starved of stimulus and genuinely bored that I decided to go back to college. Best decision I've made. I'll be changing careers very soon
to be happy with less and to make the most out of little. Also remember: one man's heaven is another man's hell. happiness is a poor beggar with an empty bowl in one hand and a $100 bill in the other...
My summary/interpretation of the 10 principles from this video: I. Ignore what others are doing. - Ignore everyone and focus at the task at hand. II. Your reality is made by your opinions. - No external “reality” exists outside of our perceptions. If you interpret others actions as irrelevant how can you be hurt? III. Do less. - Many of our actions and words are unnecessary. IV. Death is knocking at your door. - Live every day as your last. When people know death is close many won’t waste their time. V. You’re stronger than you think. - How lucky I am, that it has left me with no bitterness; unshaken by the present and undismayed by the future. The thing could have happened to anyone, but not everyone would have emerged unembittered. VI. You are rising for the work of humankind. - Everyone has a gift. Try to do everything you do as good as you possibly can. VII. Never complain. - Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. Do your hate your obligations? Quit them or make efforts to make them less painful. VIII. You can live happy anywhere. - Dedicate all of your creative energy to doing something personally meaningful. IX. Help the common good. - What doesn’t help the bee, doesn’t help the hive. X. Be grateful of your blessings. - Do not indulge in dreams of having what you have not, but reckon up the chief of the blessings you do possess, and then thankfully remember how you would crave for them if they were not yours.
I totally understand what's he's saying with #8 by being happy anywhere. It's true you should never rely on external things to create our own happiness. But I will also say that I moved from a cold climate to a warm climate and it absolutely improved my mental health and happiness levels. Waking up every morning to warm sunshine just puts me in a good mood.
Number 2 is a complete misinterpretation of what Marcus Aurelius wrote and stoic teachings in general. The stoics borderline worshipped an objective law/truth/reality called the logos and based much of their philosophy around it. But his quote is actually saying that objective reality is not what causes you distress or happiness. He is saying that your perception of and reaction to reality (i.e. your perspective) is what causes your emotional state. So, he's basically saying how you react to external events is 100% under your control because you can choose how you frame things in your mind. You can consciously choose to view things negatively, positively, neutrally, or any number of other ways.
Number 9.. I told both my kids "Do the right thing because it's the right thing to do..know one will ever know you did but you..and that is reward enough"
I was following these principles for the past couple of years .. without even knowing about the concept of stoicism. I just stumbled onto it today. I guess i picked up those traits from my dad. Thanks papa for teaching by example rather than advice.
Same here. Although I believe he spent most of his time ruling while near the frontlines and seemed to prefer it that way. So I guess it’s more likely it would have to be in some military tent in Germany.
“Objective judgement, now, at this very moment. Unselfish action, now, at this very moment. Willing acceptance-now, at this very moment-of all external events. That’s all you need.”
This is great. The power and clarity comes when we re-focus on what is important today. As an "Original Transcon RR history enthusiast", I look at past men who rose to big challenges.. One is General Grant, who when he was terminally ill with throat cancer, wrote his memoirs in a few weeks, and Samuel Clemons, (Mark Twain), promoted it, even before it was published, and Grant died after seeing the project thru. Grant's son, had wasted the family wealth on a Ponzi scheme, and the former President was broke and in debt. Quite a story, when we consider Marcus' admonition to "treat today as if there is no tomorrow". Thanks for the morning.
#4 "Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything, all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure; these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart." -- Steve Jobs
Alexander Jenkins 😂 that’s funny but I totally agree. Dangling the carrot of death in front of some people might persuade them to build bombs instead of iPhones
Me too. I always feel that if someone ad hominem attacks me, or is out to get me, that somehow I've already got them. I may not have tried, but they feel that I have. A good feeling sometimes, but others I want to have more compassion because I don't need to compete if I've already won.
It's not about deleting your social media, it's more about understanding that they are not the most important thing in life. From Plato to Kant it was about understanding the hierarchy of things we desire
I dunno. The SM algorithms are powerful beyond our reasoning and deleting them is much better than us self-regulating our use of SM. FB, IG , et al are hoping more people just try to use it less, rather than give it up.
You should watch the documentary children full of life. It's about a japanese elementary school teacher with a different approach to schooling elementary kids.
George Treepwood I promise you read my damn mind. But hammering these things into the impressionable minds of children would create a nation of freethinkers ... and that’s just not acceptable
Interesting you talk about cancer, when I was having cancer treatment, lots of patients carried on smoking drinking and spent the day watching TV. I made 100 % recovery, not everyone did.some people never change.
I was a stoic till now and i didn't know that i was a stoic....i was thinking to myself why I'm thinking like this..but now i know that I'm a natural stoic
@warlocks4life thanks god for the redpill movement woke me up hard to the reality and sickness of the modern world. Cheers sir, have a happy and prosperous life!.
@@DarthTaterson lool i get my faCTSs from reading real books not western propaganda, also there is the redpill movement and MGTOW. you talk about facts......what facts leftist propaganda anti white profeminazi shit!& Facebook and instagram are full with cunts looking for attention, most women are addicted to social media. As a white male of european descent i dont give a shit about your diversity and facts all i want is for my culture survive and prosper. WAR IS COMING MY FRIEND CIVIL WAR IN THE STATES, CANADA AND EUROPE MARK MY WORDS.
@@marcelcostache2504 you turned from a seemingly nice guy to a triggered physco in a heartbeat.. Lol... I think its best you stay well away from social media.. There's a good lad.
@@tuduloo7799 way you dont like the truth!? im a very nice person its funny when i speak the truth most people stuck on the left call me phyco ect ect ect stop reacting as a women the social media and western society is at open war with white males! wake up and smell the coffee my friend i know i sound agressive but it is necessary or there will be no future for us white hetero and european people.
Agree with every single point. I was living like a Stoic long before I found these RU-vid videos but they are certainly much appreciated to keep reminding myself who I actually am, and not what others would like me to be and whatnot. Create your own character and role in life or society will do this for you. By striving for and achieving financial freedom, you will always be in charge no matter what.
Marcus Aurelius was The Man......an amazing thinker/human being and generously shared powerful wisdom for all future generations. What an inspiration.....thank you for this video.
I have no social media apps any more. I only use this media to learn, nothing more nothing less. I deal with negative people by learning from them, they educate you in so many ways. Life is so simple if you allow it to be. Love and Peace.
A more concise quote of him: "If you seek tranquility, do less. Or do what’s essential - what the logos of a social being requires, and in the requisite way. Which brings a double satisfaction: to do less, better. Because most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you’ll have more time, and more tranquility. Ask yourself at every moment, ‘Is this necessary?’" Stop wasting so much time on social media, watching youtube, tv, movies... don't drown yourself with addictions: video games, porn, drugs, alcohol, sex. I'm not saying to not do those things, but if you do, don't complain you don't have enough time to do what you want. Do what is essential and you will have more time than you think.
I'm genz and I'm out of social media, it becomes tough sometimes to explain others why I'm out, but I've learned "The subtle art of not giving a f*ck" to their opinions ❤️
I tried making positivity out of my wife's insults. It infuriated her. She threatened to divorce, I was thinking, hey thats definitely a positive. And to my amazement, she is totally under my control now
This is all good advice, so long as it's built on a foundation of conscience and not selfishness, or else all of this could be used to excuse awful behavior.
Number 6: "you are rising for the work of humankind". So essentially what you're saying is "this is all good advice, but I've formed an opinion about it without watching it all or paying attention to all of it".
I deactivated all my social media platforms 6 -7 months earlier & positive changes came into my life which makes me more happier & positive person now.
1. Ignore what others are doing 2. Your reality is made of your opinions 3. Do less 4. Death is knocking on your door 5. You are stronger than you think 6. You are rising for the humankind 7. Never complain 8. You can live happy anywhere 9. Hello three common good 10. Be grateful for your blessings
There's a fine line between "Stoicism", and being a narcissist, or sociopath, who's consumed in the self. And not considering the needs of others. Definitely want to balance your intake reaction by an outward interaction. Prevent, or limit negative intakes, but also engage in the positive activities you know the world around you is lacking. Otherwise, you're just enabling an environmental life cycle of egotism, in which we all offer nothing of ourselves, while expecting everything of others.
That bit about opinion early on. I came upon one of M.A.s sayings I personalized until I had it as, "The universe is change, life is opinion," that I internalized for myself, that life always changes. We go through changes growing up, and often reach a point where life seems perfect, or it changes and we perceive we have lost the perfect situation. AND, others around are lamenting their lost perfect situations. My goal, to always live in the present, not to give thought to that "perfect" time, but making today perfect for myself. I struggle with that, with Caesar, the patriarchy, convincing Feminists I, the hereditary feudal victim of patriarchy, am the historic patriarchy, and poison being dumped from the sky and on land, in the water, to achieve their stated goals, on the Georgia Guidestones, to kill 14 out of 15 of the world population, and to save the earth for themselves by excluding the remaining 6.66% of people from most of the earth, so the earth's scars can heal in the pattern of their own paradise. Me, I just want to pattern on God, with pure water, pure air, pure land, pure body, pure family, pure relations, and God's pattern for pure creation, expression of my creativity.
Well Ive found this to be the natural way that my brain works.. this stoicism that I’ve only just found out about now comes very naturally to me. I deleted my social media long ago. I quit my jobs long ago. I started doing exactly what I want and stopped caring about everybody else and I have social media to thank for that surprisingly. I sold my car and everything else and went hitchhiking for fun across America. Most people are still caged by social media and it is the source of their unhappiness and to be happy they must first give it up and realize that it literally means nothing and nothing is actually happening and maybe they will start looking up for happiness. God bless you all.
Just a gentle reminder to viewers - especially young adults - here to be mindful and consciously return to the present. Pay attention to the now of your life. It will help with studying, concentration and so much more! Just be present.
I practice Stoicism through learned experience and to know more about Marcus Aurelius helps me in what I wish to give back to humankind. A sense of purpose! Great video mate!
@@mynameismynameis666 Well stoicism does not imply "super human" or without foibles, and he was a Roman after all, that civilization had a penchant for excess in a variety of ways. His accomplishments and place in History remain.
All good a part from number 4. Hate the ‘love each day as your last’. Impractical. Ok then I will. I won’t go to work and I will spend all my money now.
Number three is why I tore up my bucket list. This whole thing explaines my entire life, having been born with a neurologically atypical brain. Known to be an introvert it was more than a few times that I came to discover that I had a nick name no one wanted to let me know of if.
I loved this video ... Now I got to know some practicality in Stoicism . Point no. 3 was very impressive - Do Less . "According to my interpretation it *IS* the essence of Life .
Yo brother thanks a lot, it helped a lot to me, and I guess it would be helpful to my friend who is in trouble(I can't help because they are far), so I ask about their day everyday, make them feel they are loved, and I hope I am successful in my part of helping my friends
Seems to me these are objectives truths. If a man lived among others on an island and enjoyed self development he would come up with exactly the same principles..
I don't like how you hardcore skewed some of these toward optimism. I don't think that was his point. Optimism can blind you just as heavily as pessimism can.
I understand your point, but that's not what it is saying. It is saying, "Nothing can suddenly disturb your peace of mind. Every tragedy should already be priced in".
I don't think it's all about being overly optimistic. It's more about trying to focus on things to be optimistic about. That's what I get from Stoicism. It's easy enough to look at Stoicism and think "easier said than done". But the point, that I take anyway, is why should it be easier said than done. We should put in to practice looking into the optimistic parts of life that we can control. That doesn't mean allowing unrealistic ideas of life come to fruition. It just means it's easier to deal with negative aspects of life. Again, that is what I get from Stoicism. But in saying that, it's absolutely changed my life for the better.
Actually Marcus Aurelius never argued that there isn't an objective reality. He simply argued that nothing was neither good nor bad but thinking makes it so. He differentiated between factual claims (the Earth is round, not flat) and value judgments (life is not worth living if i do not have a beautiful woman to love me at all times, unconditionally, and perfectly.)
