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The Highest Good: An Introduction To The 4 Stoic Virtues
Virtues Of Stoics: Courage
Following the virtue of courage makes one face death, misfortune and loss of respect, and still hold on to one’s principles.
Life is a battle, and many times, a futile one. It requires great courage to fight not just the negative forces, but the many vices, and life-choices like trying to stay sane in an insane world, or fighting the urge to be corrupt when given absolute power.
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Key Ideas
The Benefits of Journaling
- Research reveals that people who journal have a 25% increase in performance when compared to people who do not journal.
- Journaling helps improve well-being after traumatic and stressful events.
- Journaling improves communication skills. Writing reflects clear thinking, and in turn, clear communication.
- Journaling before bed decreases cognitive stimulus, rumination, and worry, allowing you to fall asleep faster.
- Reflective writing reduces intrusive and avoidant thoughts about negative events.
The Goals of Keeping A Journal
- You can bring your problems to a journal. Journaling is you figuring things out and clearing your head.
- Leave your destructive thoughts in your journal. We all carry around destructive thoughts about the things that went wrong. Instead of holding our thoughts in our head, we can put it down on paper.
- Keep a journal for your grandchildren. Fifty years from now, our own notebooks will be around to astonish and inspire our grandchildren, unlike our tweets and Facebook posts.
- Journal for your future self. Produce something that you can look back on and learn from.
Forget all the rules others impose about a journal. Do what works for you.