Stoicism: Stoicism for Beginners - the Secrets of Achieving Emotional Freedom by Learning Grit, Self-Compassion, Anger and Jealousy Management, Mental Focus and Goal Setting

By Chandler Andersen

How can you maintain your sanity in a world that pushes you to the edge?
All the evil can be attributed to emotional intelligence. People do not know how to control their emotions. They let their anger, greed, jealousy and hate take over their lives.
You are emotionally intelligent when you are able to recognize, manage and fully understand your emotions and those of others. Emotionally intelligent people have control over their emotions. They don't let their feelings control them, with this comes freedom
It's not possible to change the world but you can protect yourself from getting influenced. You can learn to handle all the negativity and succeed in life. By achieving emotional freedom, you can gain all the skills necessary to achieve social, psychological, physical and financial success as well as lead a stoic life.
The philosophy of stoicism teaches that you cannot control the external environment and events. The only thing you can control is you and your response to it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cameron Walker
• Release date: Oct 17, 2018
• ISBN: 9781386653134

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Stoicism for Beginners

The Secrets of Achieving Emotional Freedom by Learning Grit, Self-Compassion, Anger and Jealousy Management, Mental Focus and Goal Setting

Content

Introduction

Chapter 1: The trait of grit

Easy ways to develop grit

Role models in grit

Chapter 2: Self-compassion

Why is self-compassion important?

Myths about self-compassion

How can you develop self-compassion?

Chapter 3: Anger and Jealousy Management

Anger management

✓  3 myths about anger

✓  How to manage your anger

The art of handling jealousy

✓  How can you overcome your jealousy?

Chapter 4: Mental focus

How to sharpen your mental focus

Chapter 5: Master the concept of goal-setting

6 reasons why we need goals

Characteristics of efficient goals

A guide to setting your goals

Conclusion

Introduction

It’s a tough world, and it gets tougher.

A day hardly goes by without hearing cases of astonishing events and crimes. Savagery has taken over humanity.

Murders and crimes of passion are the order of the day. You can never tell when you are going to be a victim of mass murder. A stray bullet can hit you anywhere, anytime.

Small, innocent children are killed in wars they did not understand. Lives and property are destroyed in terrorist attacks that the victims had nothing to do with.

To top it all up, the poor are getting poorer while the rich get richer. The poor man is oppressed, overtaxed, denied quality public services while the rich man benefits most from the same taxes.

How can you survive in the midst of all this evil and unfairness?

How can you maintain your sanity in a world that pushes you to the edge?

All the evil can be attributed to emotional intelligence. People do not know how to control their emotions. They let their anger, greed, jealousy and hate take over their lives.

You are emotionally intelligent when you are able to recognize, manage and fully understand your emotions and those of others. Emotionally intelligent people have control over their emotions. They don’t let their feelings control them, with this comes freedom

It’s not possible to change the world but you can protect yourself from getting influenced. You can learn to handle all the negativity and succeed in life. By achieving emotional freedom, you can gain all the skills necessary to achieve social, psychological, physical and financial success as well as lead a stoic life.

The philosophy of stoicism teaches that you cannot control the external environment and events. The only thing you can control is you and your response to it.

Stoicism means having peace and happiness in an environment that motivates a different response. It helps you cultivate the mental and emotional state necessary to handle this unpredictable world. 

This book is going to tip you on the secrets of achieving emotional freedom by mastering six beneficial concepts: grit, self-compassion, anger and jealousy management, mental focus and goal setting.

Learning in itself cannot change your life, you have to practice it. By the end of it, you are going to have gained an immense power to conquer your emotions and live a fulfilled life, succeeding in all your endeavors.

Change does not have to happen at once. Overnight change is hardly sustainable. Instead, take small steps, with consistency and persistence; you are going to eventually adopt a new way of life.

When you backslide, do not waste time brooding over it. Get back on track. It’s not about being perfect, it’s about making effort.

Chapter 1: The Trait of Grit

Everyone has goals, dreams, and ambitions. Even the laziest people dream of the good life that comes with success.

Dreaming and making wishes does not guarantee its achievement. Different people attribute success to different things. Some believe it is hard work. Other people say it depends on I.Q, while most attribute it to talent.

How true is this?

You must have met the kind of people who always work overtime. They hardly sleep for more than four hours. They do not believe in taking vacations. They rarely engage in social chit-chat. According to them, every minute counts. They work hard but sadly, make no progress in life.

In sports, all participants are talented, but do they all win? What separates the losers from the winners?

How many geniuses have you met who have wasted their life away? You meet someone in the streets, have a conversation with them, and at the end of it you can’t help but wonder, With all his brilliant ideas, why isn’t this guy a billionaire?

The answer is in a powerful four-letter word: Grit.

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