Day 150: Stoicism and CBT on Training the Mind | Dying Every Day

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This episode explores Stoicism and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy as tools for training the mind, focusing on the opinions surrounding death.

📮 Want tools for the art of living? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 150. “Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by the opinions about the things: for example, death is nothing terrible, for if it were, it would have seemed so to Socrates.” — Epictetus, Enchiridion Epictetus is not making a philosophical argument. He is performing one. He has taken the belief—death is terrible—and subjected it to a test. He has sought evidence and found a counterexample in Socrates, who faced death with equanimity. Epictetus concluded from examination, not argument alone, that the terror lies in the opinion of death, not death itself. This activity is philosophy as a cognitive practice. A man sitting alone, identifying a distorted belief, testing it against evidence, revising it, and recording the revision. Doing it again tomorrow. And the day after. [...] #stoicism #philosophy #lifelessons --- 🖇️ Stay Connected: Newsletter: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribe Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/perennialmeditations/ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PerennialMeditations --- 🦉 Additional Resources…

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Host: Perennial Leader Project

Topics covered

• Stoicism
• Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• Philosophy
• Mind Training
• Death
• Self-Improvement

Keywords

• Stoicism
• CBT
• Epictetus
• Socrates
• philosophy
• mind training
• self-improvement

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