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7 Stoic Principles and Practices to Improve Your Life
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About 7 Stoic Principles and Practices to Improve Your Life
Course Trailer
Don't Suffer Imagined Troubles
Be Teachable
Seek Out Challenges
Consider Timing and Appreciate the Present
Guard Your Time
Quality of Your Thoughts
Amor Fati
Final Project
Conclusion
What You Will Learn?
- The 7 Stoic Principles and Practices covered in this course will center on mental strength and virtue. I will share teachings from several of the founding fathers of stoicism (Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and Epictetus) that have helped me strengthen my willpower in pursuit of the various goals I have had for myself over my life..
- Students will be given an opportunity to reflect on each of the below practices and principles and learn from real world examples of their implementation: .
- Below are some key questions I hope to answer in the course:.
- Why is stoicism important to me in the modern world?.
- How are stoic practices and principles useful to me?.
- In what ways can I apply the practices and principles on a daily basis?.
- This courses is geared to individuals who are 1) easily frustrated with things outside their control, 2) ready to make big changes in their thought processes, and 3) looking to re-center their lives to potentially find more meaning in existence. .
- No prior knowledge of stoicism or Roman/Greek philosophy is needed for this course. .
- There are worksheets connected to a few lessons and the course project that centers on self-reflection via journaling. The students will be given 7 prompts to choose from and will be asked to share their thoughts in a journal entry..