7 Stoic Keys To Happiness
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- Опубликовано: 20 авг 2024
- “A good character is the only guarantee of everlasting, carefree happiness.” - Seneca
The Stoics believed in living a virtuous life, one with the potential to bring us personal happiness and fulfillment. And that’s one of the reasons a person may choose to live after their fashion. After all, what good is philosophy if it doesn’t ultimately bring us happiness? But in Stoic philosophy, it’s the pursuit of virtue and good character that allows us to get there. For the Stoic, the pursuit of virtue is the pursuit of happiness. If we can live virtuously, a good life will follow.
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"The secret of happiness is not in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less." Love your videos, thank you Ryan!
9 things to quit for all Strong Men:
1. Caring about what others think
2. Not believing in yourself
3. Not experimenting different ideas / solutions for problems (life & business)
4. Not prioritizing your health
5. Wasting your precious time
6. Wanting something (instead write a plan and work towards it)
7. Chasing meaningless relationships
8. Wasting time by scrolling social media
9. Quitting addictions for good (if you have any - consider stopping it as it makes you mentally weak + affects your confidence and all other areas of your life!) 🚀
Take it easy and I hope you found one thing helpful in this list 💯☝
Thanks ❤❤❤
Dad & I have Long Covid. We’ve been sick for 26 months this past month has been particularly difficult I’ve only gotten more than four hours of sleep two nights in August 2022. I feel like I’m gonna die today and the feeling of death has become very normal very often 💫 good luck almost no one that will ever read this has any idea how blessed you are
I'm so sorry, I have a niece and a good friend who had it, and are finally rounding the bend. Hugs and healing to you!!
I only got 3 hours of sleep every night for a year so I vaguely understand what horrors you're dealing with but I pray you & your dad will overcome this as I have. it's true most people have no idea how blessed they are to be without chronic illness & to be able to sleep at night. I'm going to pray a sincere prayer for you both.
Check out “The laughing heart asmr”, it really helps with sleep with insomnia (have personally tried). Also, Dr Eric Berg for health. Both these channels have free youtube videos.
I'm so sorry. Hope u get better soon.
God helps you guys to heal!!! I pray for you🙏 🤲
“Happiness is a quiescent state. It is not jittery. It is not trying to go anywhere or get anything. It is very still, so you have to become a little still to come into proximity to it. It is as if happiness is going five miles an hour and you are going a hundred miles an hour! Well, you passed it by!”
_Wisdom from the Greater Community, Book 1 » Chapter 22: Escaping Suffering_ - by Marshal Vian Summers.
Thanks.
Thank you for sharing. I have this book you are quoting from and it is really a gem. Never found so much wisdom in one book.
I am mobility, hearing and memory challenged, and undergoing tests for stomach cancer and diabetes. I am also seeking new employment. I am on my own as my husband died 10 years ago. No children, no family. How do I continue as I seemingly have nothing to live for?
I have terrific friends. The little work I still do gives me joy. I volunteer in my community. I have an accessible flat. I can still walk, still do meaningful things, recently I suggested a new piece of legislation thanks to a theatre project. This week I gave two interviews to mainstream media about private property renting.
Potential. In all our forms…
Happiness is being amazed with the present and what you do have at this moment
Is Happiness confused with joy? Joy is not the dopamine hit happiness is. it is inner peace that runs deep and overflows it’s boundaries.
1. Having my internal compass, not outside 2. Comparisson is the thief of joy. This is enough It is what I have right know. 3. I delight in my own improvement. Fulfill my potential 4. Not to be so recheable. ..
I wrote this on another channel that the Scandinavian concept of lagom, just enough of all you need in other words, seems to be the key to inner peace.
The Stoic version of happiness is contentment. Happiness is an emotion, and emotion is a chemical response caused by a stimuli. Contentment, before happiness.
I just want to say your book "the obstacle is the way changed my life", through changing my perspective on things and coming to terms that the hurdles and mountains I life is where growth and character building happen. I'm really grateful for people like you.
The teachings of the stoics should be a part of addiction recovery… it has helped me immeasurably
5. Eudaimonia, it is realize the potential, do the right things. It is living acting with virtue 6. Realize what do I really need? Simple life it is much better. 7. You make beautiful choices. Push myself.Start right know
Happiness is an emotion, just like sadness is an emotion…the key is to find contentment in your life’s journey.
The search for happiness is the source of all unhappiness.
This world is a tough place. It will beat you up. So be kind to each other! It won’t cost you anything
I've just read a comment below a recovering cancer patient ,it now puts things in perspective im physically well and should be grateful i need to be mentally stronger
Ryan, I just wanted to say thank you for your videos and books. You, along with stoicism, reading, and writing and a few other things, have all contributed to helping me find a sober and happy life after twenty years of suffering. I'm finally happy and I've even written my own book. Thank you again. I'm very grateful.
That's amazing! Congratulations on your personal growth.
@@joeyh31 Thank you very much much, I appreciate that.
Comparison is also the giver of joy . Depends if you look up or down, short term happiness you look down , long term happiness you look up . Looking down is gratitude , looking up is envy and motivation, for happiness you need financial freedom, health and family values, if you have these 3 you are rich and happiness is then a very easy mindset to achieve.
Hello, I left Brazil to get here in Italy my citizenship, which I did and it is great. But now I'm really having difficulties to adapt in this new place, it is hard to find a job and I'm feeling super alone. But your videos helps me a lot. So I guess what I'm trying to say is, thank you.
Happiness is based on happenings and joy is from perspective.
I’ve been a somewhat natural stoic all my life…I’m 67….it’s been pure luck. I’m very lucky…..🇬🇧
I recently just discovered your channel and listen to them all the time in the morning when I'm skating. Your vids are very digestible and are in good lengths. I feel like I've grown so much in a short period of time. Thank you!
Wow, thanks Ryan, I think we all needed to hear this on this Friday morning. Amor Fati
dishing out daily free valuable content...that is an abundance mindset
When you bring Happiness to people, it goes back to you!🙏❤️❤️❤️
your book ego is the enemy changed my paradigm of life ,,thank you for saving me from the pain
I love the dichotomy, dissection, and dialectic synthesis between Epicureanism and Stoicism. Great meditation to start the day.
Thanks for what you do. I’m in the infancy of my stoic journey and your channel is a huge help.
I’ve find happiness ,joy ,blady bla ,since I stopped alchol,,it’s like I’m seeing beauty in the day ,just like when I was a kid
Subscribed to the email this week. Better late than never!
Ryan, I've got a question on how stoicism deals with illness. Specifically how does stoicism help to push through a chronic illness?
I've only been watching you for a few months, but looking back to my time against cancer back in 2001, I'm confident I dealt with it as a stoic would. I overcame the challenge, and moved forward. My wife being pregnant at the time, I needed to Be There for my son (and her). No one understood how I had the determination to push through as I did, but it was for them.
However, I've come to find out that the treatments I received (specifically radiation therapy) have caused health issues coming in like a very slow tide over the last 20+ years. There are times I feel like I'm drowning in that in coming tide.
I've had all the testing to confirm "I'm not gonna die from this" (i.e. no cardio-vascular issues), but BP and heart rate are out of control, not responding to medications as it's a baroreflex dysfunction or some other sort of dysautonomia. Despite mental fortitude, there are days where the body just WILL NOT do what I need it to do, and no amount of physical conditioning seems to help.
This isn't a health issue that has an outlook of "getting better". Again, thi isn't something that is going to kill me, but it's more of dealing with what comes, even though "what comes" is involving stopping and sitting just to attempt a trip around the grocery store.
None of this helps for any possible concept for a career goal (In fact, I'm filing for disability), hobbies (brain fog is an issue too with this), and like the grocery store, even daily tasks that have to be done.
I glanced through your catalog of videos and only saw a couple videos on the pandemic and anxiety, but nothing on dealing with long-term or chronic illness. So, how would the stoics push through?
You are a hero to yourself be proud ❤
Do check out Dr Eric Berg on cancer. He has free youtube videos on a lot of health solutions. Worth a shot. Take care of yourself.
Intermittent fasting would really help. Especially long term fasting like OMAD (23 hours fasting, and eating only within 1 hour time period)
Perhaps get off the meds and seek out alternative health care- an Ayurvedic doctor or practitioner, an herbalist, a holistic nutritionist are a few to start. When tradition medicine isn’t working, look elsewhere.
Diet Changes,lifestyle modifications,exercise,knowing that you are not your body but your soul,something which is far greater than the physical body and just being in the present moment
Thank you, Ryan. You are doing great work. Peace.
So inspirational. I hope to study this philosophy more in depth. I think it will improve my mental state of being and even more how I deal with other people.
I'm not even a novice yet, but I've started reading "Meditations"
Thanks for this! I've been having a bummer time lately, this message has helped me immensely!
The formula of happiness by Nietzsche;
Happiness= a yes, a no , a straightline and a goal.
Happiness lasts for about 10 seconds or so - but joy is a way of 'being'.
Love from Poland🙂👍
Happiness is a dopamine hit that motivates us to push forward.
Ryan, I have greatly benefited from your work. Thank you.
Hi Ryan, did you know we in Sweden 🇸🇪 actually have a word for that? LAGOM. Being content with “just enough”.
Ryan.....your fabulous !......thank you for sharing these "nuggets of wisdom" with us from the Stoics.....
Invaluable for daily living !...sincerely Ms Guns Canada
Happiness is a journey, not a destination
Contentment is the key.
Love all ur videos and the daily email!!!
This video is tremendously awesome!
Thank you for another inspirational video. As a longtime Karate practitioner, the stoic ideals appeal very much to me.
I really needed this right now. Thank you!
Make beautiful choices 🔥
Thank you Ryan.
Happyness must ensue, it cannot be persued
Thanks for the reminder
Virtue and being one with Nature are what matters in Stoicism. Living with virtue IS happiness. However, in order to remain virtuous, you change your perspective on things. For instance, Epictetus talks about never using possessive language for anything other then your mind as that's all you can control. You wouldn't say "my brother died", you say something like "a person who's related to me died.”
Came from the Stoicism subreddit lol
Another great Video thank you I have all your audible books I’m sharing stoicism with my children 11. 13 and 15 really helpful especially as a father keep up the great work.
Good stuff Ryan, as always! But please, please learn how to press a kettlebell, you're asking to exacerbate shoulder problems with that technique :D
Bless you bro
Gracias ❤❤❤
Just bought stillness! I can’t wait to crack it open this weekend :)
You rock so hard bro. Marcus Aurelius would looooove you.
Happiness is not necessarily contentment. Here are the 4 that help me:
1. Work Hard EPHESIANS 4:28
2. Be Honest HEBREWS 13:18
3. Have a Balanced View of Money HEBREWS 13:5
4. Choose the Best Education that aligns with God's thinking PROVERBS 3:21
thank you, thank you ryan.
Brilliant! Many thanks.
Ryan your so helpful God bless you
Great perspective on happiness! Thank you!!
These videos are very enlightening . thks
Thank you for making this video
Amazing info, thank you Sr!!
So true, but hard too.
I see that Cerro Gordo shirt 😁
Love your channel! 🙏
Love the triple 6 shirt LOL
Hi Ryan Holiday,
Can you please film a RUclips video on how to self-reflect while journaling.
Made my day thank you
Yes! think u again for these videos
Thanx Ryan, a lot.
Enough is as good as a feast.
Well done !
“Enough is as good as a feast”-German proverb
This so beautiful
Liked this one!
Thank very much for all of your work. Do you have your books available in Spanish ?
Excellent video and love your channel content.
Absolutely stupendous, Thank you Ryan, I really loved this 😃😃😃😁😁😁😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰 Love your iron Maiden shirt😍🎸😁😃 I recommend listening to a band called Budgie, They did a song called Napoleon bona 1 and 2. 🐦😃😁🎸 It's always a pleasure to listen to you Ryan, Peace, love, joy and happiness to you and everyone , Thank you universe 🎸😁😃🐦😍🥰👁🌌👽🛸🌓♾️💫🐉🦄🧿🌈😁😁😁
awesome
Brilliant
😊🏴☠️
fantastic video. now, how do I remember all of this as I go about my day?
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How do you keep people from sucking the positive energy out of you?
Hi! when is the new book about discipline coming out?
Which version of Meditations do you recommend? Thx
Meditations: A New Translation (Modern Library Classics)
I hope one day they can redefine the Stoic in dictionary
The ensue (not pursuit) of happiness. 🧐
Holy hell you've wrote 10 books😳😳😳 ...could u please list them and where they are available...and do you get deep in the stoicism, as in how to question those who "think" they are in an authoritative positions?
Try the link to the dailystoic store in the video description for a list of works; however I often find them in book stores across Australia and New Zealand so you're bound to have paper ones in a city near you if you live in an English speaking country. Or else I read them on my kindle
@@jackjenner9501 Thank you
Anyone have the secret to feel at peace i have so many humans dependent on me it weighs me down im struggling mentally
I suggest that you invest in your own inner peace. Stop worrying about people, situations and things that are out of your control. We can’t control anyone or anything other than ourselves and our responses/ reactions to what life throws our way. We can’t stop what’s coming . Acceptance is a powerful key to happiness. Stay blessed!
He's still saying "Epictetus" incorrectly. :(
Me first
Thank you sir! Posted the below a few days ago as a response to Ben and his great works here specifically ( ruclips.net/video/zV2cezWAcWs/видео.html&lc=UgxAgWhEEWNQrMEFmn54AaABAg ) and the decades he has been fighting the good fight (but i digress)... For what it is worth.
Thank you so much sir! Somewhat relevant, ordered and am reading Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. Not any kind of substitute for your own religion but is helping get my head right. As well as (at the start a few months ago forcing it) finding any good thing at the moment, no matter how small (a hummingbird fighting it out with another out the window, back and forth) while there are a 100 "legitimate" reasons you could wallow in your own self pity by only seeing the bad. I struggle with this daily but have found it becomes more easy all the time and for me it is saying thank you Lord for those little things rather then Lord help me with my $hit. Take it for what it is worth but please know all that you are not alone. Oh and one more thing, please check up on your strong friends and family members. They may not be as strong as you think. God bless you all.
TL;DR
1. C major
2. G major
3. F major
4. D major
5. Bb major
6. A major
7. Eb major
How is that relate to stoicism?
@@FocusMrbjarke oh sorry, I forgot:
1. stoic C major
2. stoic G major
3. stoic F major
4. stoic D major
5. stoic Bb major
6. stoic A major
7. stoic Eb major
Oh ya I remember the easy aphorisms of the stoics. Still great for breeding complacency. 1%ers rest easy
Happiness is not drinking