Stoic leadership
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Stoicism is a 2,000-year-old philosophy that you can adapt to your leadership at work, or in your personal life. To me, stoicism merges questions of the meaning of life, consciousness and the practicalities of functioning as the best human you can be. This podcast is a..
Stoic leadership
1y ago
Personal development is a lifelong work. Stoicism is no different.
Despite trying my best to be stoic, I found a hidden corner of failure.
The COVID-19 virus exposed me to a litany of blind spots I didn't know I had. I was still in the vice grip of uncontrollable events lurking deep in my sub-conscious.
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Stoic leadership
1y ago
Stoicism teaches us to look inward, and to do more with less. Prior to COVID-19 it was difficult to imagine how much I could trim.
I delayed buying a new car, cut back going to dinner, had less exotic holidays.
Braver people then I may have even abstained. But I couldn’t cut things back all the way because of social pressure and the lack of imagination.
From my blog series here
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Stoic leadership
1y ago
A fisherman who cannot go to sea prepares his nets.
I grew up with kids who’s fathers were fisherman. I remember how on windy days they’d have fishing nets strewn along the length of their huge concrete driveway. The father and grandfather would stand over the nets with big needles and plastic twine repairing tears. Then they’d deal with the ropes, plastic bubbles and bits of chain.
They wouldn’t do this every time they couldn’t fish, only when they knew they would have an extended period out of the sea. It took a lot of effort to unload the nets, take them home, and go through the whole ..read more
Stoic leadership
1y ago
I've had an extremely stressful time running my business through the 2020 Covid pandemic.
Stoic practice has lots of ways of dealing with stress but in this podcast I've gone for a conscious stream of thought which focuses on two things gratitude and journaling.
I know too many people it might sound fuzzy and impractical, but let me leave you with this thought about journaling. The only way to get something out of your head is to put it somewhere. Journaling is a great way to put those thoughts somewhere that is not inside your head.
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Stoic leadership
1y ago
Throughout my life I’ve had to explain myself. Why won’t you eat your dinner? Why did you come home at 3 am? Why didn’t you study more?
Why didn’t you train harder?
As I get older, it seems, the more I stick my head up, the more I need to explain myself.
Why did you do it like this, or that, or I thought we would do this instead?
In order to please people, I’ll give an explanation, any explanation. This comes from my inability to say no.
I am here on my journey and not even I understand the reason I do things.
From my blog series here
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Stoic leadership
1y ago
We can lean on ancient philosophies to get through these hard times.
The philosophies have been around for over 2,000 years and multiple plagues and disasters.
Here are 4 steps to get through tough times and find the sun.
From my blog series here
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