Is it better to --- (1) experience intense enthusiasm/euphoria but it also means you feel very deep despair/heartache at times, or (2) would you rather have less boundless joy but also much less sadness in your life?
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Does reading the Stoics help? If so I need to get on that. Just never sang to me.
I've found them useful, although contemporary takes (e.g. A Guide to the Good Life) are IMO a much more enjoyable intro. My main takeaway is an intuitive understanding of/comfort with the idea that many low points lie ahead, and that resources will be unavoidably lost & reaccrued
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I like that take
Will look up!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Thank you both... gonna look and think. (All that loss anticipation primed me apparently: "look and think" would be an epitaph I would be proud to have)
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Happy to discuss anytime
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