This Part 2 of the Voluntary Discomfort series, Part 1 explains what Voluntary Discomfort is and it’s benefits. After writing the “How Voluntary Discomfort Can Change Your Life” post, I decided to do three days of voluntary discomfort myself. I...
This is Part 1 of the Voluntary Discomfort Series. Part 2 is about my own experience and takeaways doing three days of voluntary discomfort. *Check out Part 2 here. What Is Voluntary Discomfort? Voluntary discomfort is precisely what it sounds like, to submit oneself...
For a summary of the best ideas from Man’s Search For Meaning By Viktor Frankl, read it here. You can buy the book here. On Suffering “Without suffering and death human life cannot be complete.” – Viktor Frankl “Emotion, which is...
For a collection of the best quotes from Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl, read it here. Man’s Search For Meaning The author of this book, Viktor Frankl, was an Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist as well as a Holocaust survivor. Before he was...
Success, like most things in life, is a subjective thing. For a seven-year-old, success might mean staying up late after bedtime and getting away with it. For a father of five in Tanzania, success might mean growing good crops for the year so he can afford to feed the...
One of the greatest tools the ancient Stoics gave us is Premeditatio Malorum, the premeditation of evils. Unlike the ever more popular positive visualization in today’s self-help community, Premeditatio Malorum is quite literally the opposite of that – negative...
How to Keep a Stoic Journal for Self-Improvement
