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Dale Carnegie: 7 Rules of Happiness

What Is the Secret to Living a Happy Life?

Is happiness a feasible goal to pursue? What are some ways to cultivate happiness and bring more joy into your life? Happiness may seem like an overly ambitious and rather vague goal to strive for. And although the feeling of intense happiness is indeed transient and fleeting, it’s possible to cultivate and maintain a generally happy mindset with these rules of happiness. Dale Carnegie’s seven rules of happiness will help you rediscover the joys of life you may have forgotten.

The Stoic Way of Life: 4 Principles for Modern Living

Is Stoicism relevant to modern life? How do Stoics view the world? Can anyone cultivate a stoic mindset? Stoicism began in ancient times, but its lessons are as relevant today as they were at the times of Zino of Citium, the founder of the Stoic school of thought. The stoic way of life, at its root, centers around looking at the world through the lens of logic and rationality and keeping a dispassionate attitude to extreme emotions. Here are four principles to keep in mind if you’d like to try the stoic way of life.

Find Inner Peace: 4 Things You Can Start Doing Now

Do you often find yourself troubled or concerned with things you have no control over? Do you wish you could break free from unnecessary worry and anxiety? A worried or troubled mind makes it hard to live life fully. There are many ways to banish unnecessary worry from your life and find inner peace, and they all begin with rationality. Here are some pointers on how you can find inner peace through rationality.

Living Like a Stoic: Logos, Nature, and Reason

What is logos in Stoicism? What does it mean to live according to the logos principle? Stoics believed that to live a good life, one must live according to logos. Following the Stoic logos means accepting that every occurrence is the right one, as surely as if someone had measured every outcome and chosen the best possibility. Keep reading to learn about the Stoic concept of logos and how you can put it into practice in your own life.

Cultivate a Stoic Attitude: 7 Principles to Get You Started

What is Stoicism? Can anybody cultivate a stoic mindset? Stoicism is a life philosophy that emphasizes agency, mental toughness, and self-discipline as tools for living a good life. The stoic attitude is being strict with yourself and patient with others so as to keep the mind clear and not let negativity get to you. In this article, we’ll discuss how you should relate to other people and how you should treat yourself, according to Stoicism.

How to Develop a Stoic Mind in Just 5 Steps

What is a stoic person like? What is the Stoic secret to staying calm and imperturbable in times of adversity? Stoic people show fortitude and imperturbability to extreme emotions. According to Marcus Aurelius, there are three characteristics of a stoic mind: 1) sanity, 2) cooperation, and 3) disinterest. When your mind has these characteristics, you’ll never suffer from anger or anxiety. Here’s how cultivating a stoic mind can help you develop a sense of perspective and become saner and more dispassionate.

Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations—Book Overview

Is Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations worth reading? What was the emperor’s intention in writing this text? Meditations is a series of Marcus Aurelius’ personal writings about the practical applications of Stoicism. Many scholars consider Meditations to be one of the definitive Stoic texts. Below is a brief overview of the key themes and ideas discussed in Marcus Aurelius’ book Meditations.

Dale Carnegie on Religion: The Power of Faith

What role does religion play in your life? Do people who practice some form of religion or spirituality tend to be happier and more at peace with themselves? According to psychologist Dale Carnegie, religion and belief in a higher power is a powerful buffer against worries and stresses of life. Even if you don’t subscribe to traditional religion, you can still find a higher power and a type of prayer. Your prayers might look like: meditation, journaling, writing messages in bottles, or simply speaking them aloud to the universe. Here is how religion can help you alleviate worry and live

Stoicism and Death: Don’t Fear the Inevitable

What does Stoicism have to say about death? Is there a Stoic way to face death? Stoics see death not as something to brush under the carpet, but rather as a reality to confront and make peace with. Stoic philosophers even kept a human skull on their desk as a reminder of mortality. Here’s what Marcus Aurelius, a Roman emperor and a distinguished Stoic philosopher, had to stay on Stoicism and death.

The Anthropic Cosmological Principle Explained

Why is the universe appear as though it was fine-tuned for life to exist? What is the anthropic principle? In simple terms, the anthropic cosmological principle is the idea that, if we take the existence of life as a given condition of the universe, we can use it to deduce its fundamental life-giving properties. There are two versions of the anthropic principle—a weak one and a strong one. Keep reading to learn about the two variants of the anthropic cosmological principle.