Letters from a Stoic: 6 key ideas
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- IDEA 1 OF 6
Guard your time
We are stingy with money but careless with time, the one thing we can't get back.
Account for your hours as you would your coins.
- IDEA 2 OF 6
Read deeply, not widely
Skimming many authors leaves nothing behind.
Stay with a few great minds and digest them.
- IDEA 3 OF 6
Practise poverty
Spend a few days living on very little.
You'll find that what you feared is bearable, and fortune loses its grip.
- IDEA 4 OF 6
Choose your company
Associate with people who will improve you and whom you can improve.
Crowds pull you toward their habits.
- IDEA 5 OF 6
We suffer more in imagination
Most fears are about things that may never happen.
Ask whether the trouble is real or only anticipated.
- IDEA 6 OF 6
Philosophy is for living
Its purpose is to shape actions, not to win debates.
Judge it by how it changes your days.
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