it talks about the introduction of the book of Little book on Stoicism, it talks mainly about the importance of Stoicism and main components of Stoicism

1. STOICISM - I
SOUMYTH
Adapted from
Little book of Stoicism
JONAS SALZBEGER

2. INTRODUCTION
▪ Encountering Stoicism is the easy part.
▪ Understanding and explaining is the tricky part.
▪ Realizing its importance today is challenging part.
▪ Grasping and Practicing it is the ambitious part.
We are in the dire need of a philosophy that teaches how to live.
Stoicism will help you to build mental strength and stamina to become emotionally resilient so you will
not get influenced by outside events and stay calm even in the harshest situations.
In other words, Stoicism will show a way to handle and order your life.
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3. INTRODUCTION
▪ Stoicism teaches us to mindfully live by a set of desirable values such as
Courage, Patience, Self-discipline, Serenity, Perseverance, Forgiveness, Kindness And Humility.
▪ Practicing Stoicism helps us better human beings and teaches us how to excel in life.
▪ Stoicism tells us that there is only a loose connection between external circumstances and our
happiness.
▪ Stoics recognized that good life depends on the cultivation of one’s character, on one’s choices and
actions rather than what happens in the uncontrollable external world.
We are responsible for our own happiness.
Stoicism provides a compass which helps us to find a clear direction to fulfil our lives.
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4. INTRODUCTION
▪ Stoicism minimizes the emotional suffering by controlling anger, fear and grief.
▪ In bad times, Stoicism shows the light which helps us to get back in our lives.
Epictetus asks,
Whenever we face any difficulty,
Remember the contest is now, and you are at the Olympics and you can’t wait any
longer.
Mastering Stoicism requires a lot of practice,
Theory helps us to make some initial moves but in the long run experience
helps us to grow better.
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5. SOUMYTH 5
WHAT IS STOICISM?
PART - I

6. ▪ As trees become deep-rooted and sturdy when they encounter strong winds,
We also become stronger, calm, disciplined and humble by every challenge faced.
Art of Living
▪ Philosophy is an essential craft for who wants to learn how to live well.
▪ Stoic philosophy will help you deal more effectively with whatever challenge life throws at you.
▪ Stoic philosophy teaches us how to excel in life, prepares us to face adversity calmly and enjoy life.
▪ If we want to become good at living,
We must know “How to live”, and “apply that wisdom to everyday life”.
▪ Stoicism demands us to go out there in real world and vigorously apply what we have learnt.
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7. Eudaimonia
means
“Be good with your inner spirit, live in harmony with your
highest self.”
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8. Eudaimonia
▪ For Stoics, Eudaimonia is the Ultimate goal of life.
i.e., living in harmony with your ideal self, expressing your highest
version of yourself in every moment.
▪ We should close the gap between who were capable of being (our ideal self) and
who we actually are in that moment.
▪ Eudaimonia common translation is
It means that, you can only be good with your daimon when your moment-to-
moment actions are in harmony with your ideal self.
You will live well, only as a consequence of being Happy.
• Eudaimonia is a happy and smoothly flowing life that comes from thriving at
bringing our moment-to-moment actions into harmony with our highest self.
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9. Emotional Resilience
Philosophy : – Making preparation to meet the things that come upon us.
▪ A boxer won’t leave the ring when gets punched, in the same way we should not
give up when life knocks us down, we should get back up and get better.
▪ A person who goes through various difficulties will get hardened by suffering and
can face anything.
▪ Strong emotions are our ultimate weakness; especially when we let them dictate
our behavior.
They’re toxic to eudaimonia and they’re at the root of all human suffering.
▪ To possess Eudaimonia we need to keep our emotions in check.
We need to tame our emotions, so that they solve our problems.
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10. Taming Restricting Emotions
• We can deal life’s challenges only when we are emotionally resilient.
So, we need to make continual progress in taming and overcoming emotional
outbreaks.
• Stoic Philosophers had a proper understanding of our mind and developed
psychological techniques to prevent and deal with negative emotions.
Stoic Philosophers realized, for example, that what makes insults hurtful isn’t their
content, but our interpretation of those insults.
• Stoicism is about acknowledging our emotions, reflecting on what causes them,
and learning to redirect them for our own good.
• Just as there are ailments to the body, there are ailments to the mind.
It’s impossible to flourish in life while being tormented by irrational emotions.
• We need — The ability to overcome these interfering emotions.
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11. Taming Restricting Emotions
• Strong emotions are like Inner wolf, we blindly follow it and act out like animal.
• We can train ourselves to act calmly despite feeling angry, act courageously
despite feeling anxious, and going east despite the wolf pulling west.
• We can tame the wolf and understand it and can choose to ignore to act on animal
instincts and act accordingly.
• Stoicism will help us get less plagued by negative emotions and, at the same time,
experience more positive emotions such as joy or tranquility.
• The goal Stoicism assigns to us is to be useful, to help others, and to take care, not
only of ourselves, but of everyone.
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12. Euthymia
• Stoics recognized that strong emotions were their weakness and stood in their
way to live of what they’re capable of.
• Stoics seek Eudaimonia and experienced tranquility in the process.
Euthymia : - is all about knowing your path and walking that path.
• It’s the calm confidence you feel when you’re living your authentic self in integrity
with your highest values.
• Stoicism will give you many anchors to hold onto your ideal life style, which gives
you confidence to handle life as you like.
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