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The concept of antifragility: Shockingly Happy

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Re: The concept of antifragility: Shockingly Happy

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Rejection therapy has its ideological roots in Stoicism, just as the central ideas of this article does. Seneca talks about spending a few days each month wallowing in the things that you fear the most, so that they can't control you. And with regard to the anti-fragility thing, this is discussed at length also in Letters from a Stoic. Seneca talks about not being overly dominated by your fears, but also you can be a…

You would enjoy this site http://gettingstronger.org Likewise http://mises.org/books/stoics.pdf As a long-time fan of Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius, I was pleasantly surprised to discover the links between them and modern anarcho-capitalists like Hazlitt and Mises.

Hey this is really good, thank you for sharing it! I've already started reading the stoics book.
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