Arthur Schopenhauer on what makes a writer immortal
The German philosopher Arthur Schopenhauer (1788–1860) was most known for his philosophical beliefs in metaphysics which built upon Immanuel Kant’s epistemological investigations.
In Essays and Aphorisms, a collection of Schopenhauer’s work, he describes what it means to be an evergreen writer.
In today's world, an evergreen writer is defined as someone who can write content that is continually relevant. Evergreen writing is not news articles or reports on the latest findings as these things will eventually lose relevancy or new reports will supersede previous ones.
An evergreen writer is one who writes about subjects and in a way that is…
The misery of the job
The beautiful thing about Stoic philosophy is the advice contained within it is just as applicable today as it was when it was first written all those many years ago. We can learn a great deal from interpreting the advice provided and using it to our advantage as we go throughout our own lives.
Today’s quote comes to us courtesy of Seneca and his moral letters, letter 22 from Letters on Ethics:
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“Things people are unwilling to leave: they love the profits of misery even as they curse the miseries themselves.”
Advice
The world entices us with promises of things such…
It’s on you
The beautiful thing about Stoic philosophy is the advice contained within it is just as applicable today as it was when it was first written all those many years ago. We can learn a great deal from interpreting the advice provided and using it to our advantage as we go throughout our own lives.
Today’s quote comes to us courtesy of Seneca and his moral letters, letter 21 from Letters on Ethics:
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“Your business is most of all with yourself: it is you that are the problem. You don’t know what you want. …
A release or an end
The beautiful thing about Stoic philosophy is the advice contained within it is just as applicable today as it was when it was first written all those many years ago. We can learn a great deal from interpreting the advice provided and using it to our advantage as we go throughout our own lives.
Today’s quote comes to us courtesy of Seneca and his moral letters, letter 24 from Letters on Ethics:
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“Death either consumes us or sets us free. If we are released, then better things await us once our burden is removed; if we are consumed, then nothing…
Four leadership lessons from Disney’s Bob Iger
Bob Iger, perhaps one of the most strategic CEOs the Walt Disney Company has ever had, released his leadership memoir, The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons learned from 15 years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company prior to the pandemic.
Here are the top four leadership skills he talks about which any manager can immediately begin implementing.
Success is built around trust
Prior to Iger being named CEO of Disney, the company was riddled with trust problems stemming from then CEO Michael Eisner’s paranoid personality. …
On Reason
Our minds
The beautiful thing about Stoic philosophy is the advice contained within it is just as applicable today as it was when it was first written all those many years ago. We can learn a great deal from interpreting the advice provided and using it to our advantage as we go throughout our own lives.
Today’s quote comes to us courtesy of Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 12.26:
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“What links one human being to all humans: not blood, or birth, but mind.”
Advice
We’re different from animals as we possess conscious awareness and the ability to use reason and logic upon command.
Your Role
The beautiful thing about Stoic philosophy is the advice contained within it is just as applicable today as it was when it was first written all those many years ago. We can learn a great deal from interpreting the advice provided and using it to our advantage as we go throughout our own lives.
Today’s quote comes to us courtesy of Epictetus, Enchiridion, entry 37:
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“If you undertake a role which is beyond your powers, you both disgrace yourself in that one, and at the same time neglect the role which you might have filled with success.”
Advice
Held within Stoic…
How to Act
The beautiful thing about Stoic philosophy is the advice contained within it is just as applicable today as it was when it was first written all those many years ago. We can learn a great deal from interpreting the advice provided and using it to our advantage as we go throughout our own lives.
Today’s quote comes to us courtesy of Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 3.5:
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“How to act:
Never under compulsion, out of selfishness, without forethought, with misgivings.
Don’t gussy up your thoughts. No surplus words or unnecessary actions.
Let the spirit in you represent a man, an adult, a…
Our soul
The beautiful thing about Stoic philosophy is the advice contained within it is just as applicable today as it was when it was first written all those many years ago. We can learn a great deal from interpreting the advice provided and using it to our advantage as we go throughout our own lives.
Today’s quote comes to us courtesy of Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 2.8:
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“Ignoring what goes on in other people’s souls — no one ever came to grief that way. But if you won’t keep track of what your own soul’s doing, how can you not be unhappy?”
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Impressions
The beautiful thing about Stoic philosophy is the advice contained within it is just as applicable today as it was when it was first written all those many years ago. We can learn a great deal from interpreting the advice provided and using it to our advantage as we go throughout our own lives.
Today’s quote comes to us courtesy of Epictetus, Enchiridion, entry 34:
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“When you get an external impression of some pleasure, guard yourself, as with impressions in general, against being carried away by it; nay, let the matter wait upon your leisure, and give yourself a little…
D.A. DiGerolamo
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