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Why a Stoic Doesn’t Care What People Think

2021

It’s easy to follow the crowd, to focus on what everyone else is focused on, but can you follow your own judgement? Taking risks and learning from failure is the surest way to grow. In this video, Ryan Holiday talks about why you should bet on yourself and listen to your inner voice.

10:38 min

“Which One Is the Real Me?”—A Veteran’s Transition and Identity Crisis

Like most veterans, I found the transition from military to civilian life a struggle—a tougher struggle than I had anticipated. For me, I found that one of my trickier struggles was with my identity.

Article
Joshua Plummer
2022
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Diversify Your Identity

Just like with financial diversification, you should also invest in several different areas of your identity.

Article
Mark Manson
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Meditations

Marcus Aurelius was born in Rome in 121 AD and would be its Emperor from 161 to 180. Considered by Machiavelli as the last of the good Emperors, Marcus Aurelius would become one of the most important of the Stoic philosophers.

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Marcus Aurelius
2025
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How to Set Achievable Goals (that Align with Your Values)

Setting goals can help you change and improve, achieve satisfaction, and feel like you are moving through your life and your career with direction. But it isn’t easy; goal-setting takes time and commitment.

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Leading Effectively Staff
2020
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Aligning Yourself with Your Values Through Setting Goals

Our values are those deep down beliefs we hold about our purpose and our place in the world. Values might be considered our soul’s expression—they tell us who we are.

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Kristy Arbon
2020
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Authenticity Reawakened: The Path to Owning Your Life’s Story and Fulfilling Your Purpose

Authenticity Reawakened is the result of countless hours of research as well as the author, Vicki Znavor’s personal experiences and lessons learned over her forty-year career as an expert in the field of human resources.

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Vicki Znavor
2021
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10 Ways to Build Confidence

So many successful people credit their sense of self and their confidence to their success. But not many people really explain how to build confidence, or how to become confident.

Article
Frances Bridges
2017
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The Surprising Science of Goal Setting (and Why You’re Probably Doing It Wrong)

Setting goals points us in the right direction and helps us clarify our values. But hanging on to goals when they no longer serve us is a recipe for misery.

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Mark Manson
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How to Be a Stoic

The first line of Epictetus’ manual of ethical advice, the Enchiridion—“Some things are in our control and others not”—made me feel that a weight was being lifted off my chest.

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Elif Batuman
2016
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The Value of Reason in the Stoic Philosophies of Epictetus and Aurelius

According to the Stoic philosophers Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius, virtue comes through a proper understanding of nature, its processes, as well as one’s place in it.

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Rocco A. Astore
2016
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Stoicism