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Practicing a Stoic outlook everyday. New episodes arrive slowly, but they do arrive! Matt is the author of The Beginner's Guide to Stoicism. he/him

Portland, OR, USA
Joined November 2014
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Finally setting up an easy, one-stop spot for links to most of my accounts. Link in bio. Also, right here. linktr.ee/imstoic
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This could easily be an example leading into one of Epictetus's discourses
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Foggy bike trip this morning. At points I had trouble seeing pedestrians that were on the same block as me. The fog was mixed with wildfire smoke, so I rode with a mask on again.
Good thread on methods that can help support mental resilience
Cognitive reappraisal can rapidly and signficantly help you feel better during this pandemic. Your first reaction to this suggestion might be resentment; that's OK. This is still what works to help humans feel better. If you're ready, here's info: hks.harvard.edu/faculty-rese…
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Wildfire smoke is moving into Portland and the wind is blowing pollen out of the trees so I was happy to have my @flo_mask while biking home from work.
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In an upcoming book I used giving up a seat for someone in greater need as an example of basic decency but maybe I should have listed it as exceptional?
I haven't sent it off yet, but I just put the finishing touches on what will be my third book through Althea Press. It's taken all my after-work evenings and my weekends for quite a while, so it feels very good to be at a stage where time will open up again.
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Does anyone have any favorite, and short, Stoic quotes that you think aren't commonly known? I mean lines from actual practicing Stoics, ancient or modern. Not quotes that can be simply read AS Stoic.
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Stoic practice exists to reshape our beliefs, each exercise requires active attention to Stoic principles and to our reaction to those principles. Without this, the exercises are Stoically meaningless.
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A person who, for instance, uses a "Stoic" exercise to feel equanimity in their performance of a role that actively oppresses others is at no time practicing Stoicism.
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The Paxlovid metallic taste symptom is not subtle. Grateful to have access to the medication though! Covid is already serious, but when you're immunocompromised the situation is different.
Last year around my birthday my arthritis pain was finally under enough control that I started biking. So now it's been a year and I've traveled a bit over 3300 miles, which feels good. Planning on surpassing that number this year.
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Hopi vases that held corn, are put in museums but you know they were made to be used. The pitcher cries for water to carry and a person for work that is real. -a portion of "To Be Of Use" by Marge Piercy
On this #TransDayOfVisibility #TDOV help support and protect our friends and neighbors. No celebrating visibility without material action.
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Turning Red was a lot of fun. Also my 8 year old has been well informed about periods for quite a while. I'd laugh at these parents' takes if I didn't understand the damage their shriveled and controlling view of the world has on their kids.
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I didn't write fan-fic but I constantly created TTRPG characters that I never even intended to play. I'd write their elaborate backstories, draw their portraits, etc... Once I wrote an epic, comic poem about a talking squirrel who was a recurring NPC in one of our games.
reply to this message describing the fanfic you were writing/drawing when you were 13, because parents who watched Turning Red are obviously mentally out of touch mine was a two book series that involved, among many other derivative things, me flying an Arwing
I am going through my copy now and, as expected, I've enjoyed the pieces I've read. The Stoicism Today series is an important contribution to our philosophical movement and I recommend all three volumes.
Here's a recent book bringing together a selection of some of the best pieces we've published in Stoicism today in recent years! Even better: Profits support the ongoing work of the Modern Stoicism organization. Check it out! amzn.to/3HBvNju #Stoicism #Book #Essays #Life
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Rode over the goat bike on my way to work this morning.
Replying to @PBOTinfo
Go say hey to the GOAT, Portlan Goat Bike designed by Ya El Siegel, the 3rd-6th grade winner, on NE Tillamook just west of Cesar E. Chavez. While you’re there, pop in to the Hollywood Library to pick up one of these books from our friends at @MultCoLib: multcolib.bibliocommons.com/…
When I have time to myself, this is what I do. I'm in the study, reading glasses on, noise-canceling headphones powered up, with my nose in a book. For me, this is a party.
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The headphones are a new thing and I didn't really appreciate how much background noise affected me until I removed that background noise.
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Biking on a foggy 28F morning means that my jacket has frost on it when I arrive at work.