The Stoic Handbook with Jon Brooks
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The Stoic Handbook with Jon Brooks
How to Use Stoic Role Ethics to Become Happier
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Trying to be everything to everyone is a fast route to feeling stretched and resentful. The Stoics had a cleaner idea, role ethics: at any given moment you are playing a specific role, parent, friend, colleague, citizen, and the work is to play that one well rather than all of them at once.
In this episode I unpack how thinking in terms of roles clarifies your duties and quietly lowers your stress, and how the four cardinal virtues, wisdom, courage, justice and temperance, give you a standard for playing each role honestly. It also makes it easier to accept the edges of your control, since every role has limits built in.
Related article: stoichandbook.co/life-is-a-movie-just-play-your-role
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