Epicurus on Happiness
- Make good Friends.
- Develop Self-sufficiency. Freedom.
- Have time to analyze, to reflect. Be free of other's opinions.
Montaigne on Self-Esteem
- Be comfortable with your body as are animals. That is a wisdom to be learnt from animals.
- To be wise: Humility, modesty and acceptance of one's intellectual limitation.
Nietzsche on Hardship
- Our worries are vital clues telling us what is wrong with our lives and pointing the way to our ultimate improvement.
- Dare to take challenges in manner similar to climbing a mountain overcoming hurdles.
- That which does not kill me makes me stronger.
Seneca on Anger
- Pre-meditation on something uncomforting that might happen lessens the surprise and can help control the anger.
- Anger and frustration are irrational responses to setbacks and the only rational strategy is to stay calm about the fact that things do go wrong.
Socrates on Self-Confidence (Plato was his student)
- We should not be too swayed by the opinion of the others. Sheepish.
- Five distinct steps that anyone who wants to develop distinct thoughts should follow:
- Look around for common statements that is stated to be common sense... like "Best jobs are the highly paid jobs"...
- Look around for an exception.
- If an exception is found then the statement is incorrect or at least imprecise.
- Try to nuance the statement to take the exception in the account.
- Continue this process... try to find exceptions to the common sense statement.
