I’m unexpectedly bonding easily with the Stoics — “to such a person, glasses are amazing; to everyone else, a glass is just a glass, and it is half empty to boot.”pic.twitter.com/aBnJYHCuKx
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And maybe you *don't*, but if you don't, it's probably because whatever the lived experience + material product of those 80-hour weeks is *isn't actually something that you want for the sum output of your life*. You're trying to buy a new job title + raise or whatever.
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Not trying to dismantle the career ladder here, but after a year or two of this nonsense you're not going to walk away from the promotion when something interesting lands at your feet. Sunk costs are anchors. Any philosophy that frees you of this makes you *broadly more free*
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FWIW, the Roman Stoics Irvine writes about were living out various manifestations of a legit OG *rock & roll lifestyle*, contributing significantly to the political, cultural & academic scenes between periods of severe illness or banishment to dismal rocks off the coast
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What do you think accounts for the trend that the Stoics fall in and out of fashion every couple of decades? Would be super interesting to look at the data. What is the cultural environment for in and out. Maybe
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It'd be the Epicureans sometimes, except that people still believe Christian propaganda about them from 1800 years ago; they have really similar attitudes towards all the things people love about Stoics (no hedonic treadmill, living the good life and enjoying the simple things)
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