Stoic psychological tactics part five: meditation

This blogpost is part five in a series of five exploring the Stoic psychological tactics that can be used to rediscover joy in your life.
A lot can be said about meditation and there are countless ways to practice it. None of them are wrong or inferior. They are however all different save one aspect: meditation [...]

Stoic psychological tactics part four: Self-Denial

This blogpost is part four in a series of five exploring the Stoic psychological tactics that can be used to rediscover joy in your life.

This tactic takes the negative visualisation a step further. Not only do we contemplate what the worst thing is that can happen, we act as if it really has. Fake anything from [...]

Stoic psychological tactics part three: Fatalism

This blogpost is part three in a series of five exploring the Stoic psychological tactics that can be used to rediscover joy in your life.

Let go of the past and the present. That’s what fatalism is here. In certain religions and in the Roman Empire it’s accepted that we as individuals and we as a [...]

Stoic psychological tactics part two: The Dichotomy of Control

This blogpost is part two in a series of five exploring the stoic psychological tactics that can be used to rediscover joy in your life.
This blogpost borrows heavily from William B Irvine’s A guide to the good life. Although I don’t cite him literally the info in this blogpost can be found in the chapter [...]

Stoic psychological tactics part one: Negative visualization

This blogpost is part one of a series of five exploring the Stoic psychological tactics that can be used to rediscover joy in your life.

Some of you might have already heard of the stoics or perhaps even read some of the things they have written. Most well known of the Roman Stoics are [...]