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STOIC LIFE ARCHITECTURE

Life is hard.

Time is finite.

Then we die.

We are not in control.

There will be troubles and misfortunes.

If we are going to learn to live well, we must be resilient and considered.

Our happiness is in no small part dependent on our ability to... tolerate difficulties, misfortunes and hard truths honestly without losing our enthusiasm, kindness and ability to take pleasure out of life.

We must have a resilient, strong character.

This is what the STOIC LIFE ARCHITECTURE series is about.

THE COURSE

Module 1: The Art of Desire

Week #1: The Dichotomy of Control and Building Resilience

Value $100+ ... Seriously, if we sat down together and explained this as one of my coaching clients, this is at least what I would charge.

It seems obvious that focusing on what you can control and ignoring what you can't is necessary for being effective. The problem is that people really struggle to know the difference.

The path to being calmer, confident and seriously effective.

Week #2: Aversion and Fear

Value $100+

Desire and fear are forever linked. What we desire provokes the fear we won't get it. What we fear provokes the desire to avoid it.

The key is understanding the relationship between the two. All fear is the result of, or provokes, desires. However, not all desires give rise to fear.

Week #3: Purpose and Drive

Value $100+

The difficult one, but necessary to face. We will die.

That means time is finite, don't waste it.
Learn to enjoy every day!

Pursuing fulfilling long-term goals requires actually knowing what we want to pursue and what direction we want to move.

This week we internalize this truth, and we use the emotional space we have gained from the previous weeks to start figuring out what we really want.

Module 2: The Art of Judgement

Week #4: Tranquility and Kindness

Value $100+

Learning tranquility means learning to be kind and appropriate with ourselves.

This week we pull apart many of the mechanisms by which we are made unhappy. In doing so, we can start to be kinder and more rational with ourselves.

We also consider the distinction between desire and preference a core idea if we are to pursue the grand and the difficult without derailing ourselves constanly.

Week #5: Reality, Reason and Emotion

Value $100+

The key to being happy and staying happy is, believe it or not, treating ourselves rationally.

That involves realizing when we are confusing our impressions with reality. As well as realizing, we have twin faculties of reason and emotion. Being rational is using both faculties well, synergistically. Not prizing one over the other.

Module 3: The Art of Action

Week #6: Character and Impulses

Value $100+

This week we look at the shaping of character, crafting habits, feedback loops and managing our impulses.

All necessary work if we are to take what we have learned so far and live in such a way as to keep growing and keep our insights.

Week #7: Winter Training

Value $100+

If we want to be happy, we have to be resilient. Small discomforts cannot derail us or disturb our equilibrium.

This week is about the Roman practice of Winter Training. We actively train our resilience, integrity and discipline.

Week #8: Continuity and Self-Correction

Value $100+

Seeing those long-term projects through to the end involves developing a sense of continuity from one day to the next and the ability to be self-correcting so that we can get better and better.

We cannot control what happens to us, but we can control how we respond.

Whether we live well or badly depends on whether we respond well or badly!

Stoicism is all about Training our Thinking by Understanding Control so that when important moments come we make Good Choices and Live Well!

In Understanding Control, you will be introduced to first and foremost idea in Stoic philosophy. The Dichotomy of Control.

For most people introduced to this idea, it has very little impact because they don't like the idea of letting go of what is not in our control. Or they simply never bother because they don't realise knowing an idea intellectually is not the same as integrating that idea.

However, learning to live with the implications of this simple idea has the power to transform your life, just as it has done for me.

I used to really struggle. Like most people. Social judgement. The biggest things holding me back were fear of failure and a fear of other people liking me. I needed other people to see me the way I wanted to be seen. Taking seriously the ideas in the Massive Resilience course and most of all the ideas in the Understanding Control module. Gave me the space to take risks, make mistakes and start figuring out not just how to be successful but to become really funloving and happy inspite of having to deal with the ups and downs of life!

letting go of being liked. Letting go of needing to be seen as certain way. I am as a result confident and effective

Epicuros once wrote that "to practice philosophy was to become a God among men".

Most people simply don't understand what he meant or how right he was.

However, when you learn to use reason to move beyond fear you will understand why he wrote it like that.

Without the complications of fear or inner conflict, life becomes a flow of pleasures and challenges instead of suffering and traumas.

If you are struggling with overwhelm, stress, imposter syndrome, or just the feeling of not being in control.

JUST $199

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