Sharing what I have learned from what I have read: A blog by Joe Abittan
One of the things I am most fascinated by is the way in which our lives, our thoughts, and our decisions feel to us to be purely rational, but are clearly not as rational we think. Our minds are bounded by a limited amount of knowledge that we can ever have, a limited amount of … Continue reading Creatures of Logic
"The question to ask, when you feel pride, then, is this: What am I missing right now that a more humble person might see? What am I avoiding, or running from, with my bluster, franticness, and embellishments?" This quote comes from Ryan Holiday and his book Ego is the Enemy. In the quote, Holiday is … Continue reading Blind Spots From Pride
Ryan Holiday describes pride in his book Ego is the Enemy as a force that "takes a minor accomplishment and makes it feel like a major one." It is the piece of us that ascribes our success to some essential character of our selves and hyper-inflates that piece around us. It is the sense that … Continue reading Pride and Ego
"The question to ask, when you feel pride, then, is this: What am I missing right now that a more humble person might see? What am I avoiding, or running from, with my bluster, franticness, and embellishments?" This quote comes from Ryan Holiday and his book Ego is the Enemy. In the quote, Holiday is … Continue reading Blind Spots From Pride
Ryan Holiday describes pride in his book Ego is the Enemy as a force that "takes a minor accomplishment and makes it feel like a major one." It is the piece of us that ascribes our success to some essential character of ourselves and hyper-inflates that piece around us. It is the sense that we … Continue reading Pride and Ego
At the end of the day, we all, somewhere along the way, adopt a belief that we are more important than we really are. A friends mother saves journals as if people are going to one day read them and gain great insight into her life. Average American's across the country worry that what they … Continue reading An Unhealthy Belief in Our Own Importance
“For the pride which is proud of its want of pride is the most intolerable of all.” Marcus Aurelius wrote near the end of his common place book published as Meditations. He wrote this after encouraging a simple lifestyle, free from desires for material possessions or fame, and instead ruled by reason and virtue. What Aurelius throughout … Continue reading Proud of Pride
In stoic philosophy being able to control your emotions is a central focus since it allows you to make better decisions, interact in a more sociable manner with all people, and to see the world from better perspectives through a process of reflection and controlled decision making. Thinking about our thinking and thought process is … Continue reading Good Fortune