Number seven really resonated with me. We inherit so many beliefs and ways of behaving before we’re even capable of questioning them. And then we spend a remarkable amount of adulthood discovering which ones actually belong to us. I love the idea that becoming your own person involves examining what you’ve been carrying rather than simply accepting it as part of who you are.
If my eyes didn’t trick me, my name appears here, surprised even a little shocked, just can’t help expressing my thankfulness for this inspiring and encouraging reading. Thank you!
The maxim about inheriting ways of living before you can examine them is the one I would put first on this list. And I like that it does not throw the inheritance out. So pre-supplied does not mean false. Most of what I was handed was true, and I would hand it on. The question is never whether an answer came from outside. It is whether it was ever checked against this case. This life, this body, this road. And when you do check it, one of two things tends to happen: it survives on its own merits, or it comes apart without a fight. You sort them by loyalty and by cost. Is it the familiar ones that are hardest to check, because they never feel like something you were handed?
To your point #15 “God won’t forgive you” is very difficult to reconcile with Stoic teaching. It turns an encouragement to exercise judgment into a threat of divine condemnation. I would also question the assumption that “forward action” always means immediately pivoting. Sometimes the better response is to pause, acknowledge grief, seek help, or accept that something cannot be repaired. Action always needs to be appropriate, not merely energetic.
This is a wonderful list. I particularly enjoyed #7 and what it implies for the nature vs. nurture debate. It takes a certain degree of emotional awareness to re-program the subconscious habits you pick up from others in your formative years.
Number seven really resonated with me. We inherit so many beliefs and ways of behaving before we’re even capable of questioning them. And then we spend a remarkable amount of adulthood discovering which ones actually belong to us. I love the idea that becoming your own person involves examining what you’ve been carrying rather than simply accepting it as part of who you are.
If my eyes didn’t trick me, my name appears here, surprised even a little shocked, just can’t help expressing my thankfulness for this inspiring and encouraging reading. Thank you!
Thank you. This is amazing. 😻
The maxim about inheriting ways of living before you can examine them is the one I would put first on this list. And I like that it does not throw the inheritance out. So pre-supplied does not mean false. Most of what I was handed was true, and I would hand it on. The question is never whether an answer came from outside. It is whether it was ever checked against this case. This life, this body, this road. And when you do check it, one of two things tends to happen: it survives on its own merits, or it comes apart without a fight. You sort them by loyalty and by cost. Is it the familiar ones that are hardest to check, because they never feel like something you were handed?
To your point #15 “God won’t forgive you” is very difficult to reconcile with Stoic teaching. It turns an encouragement to exercise judgment into a threat of divine condemnation. I would also question the assumption that “forward action” always means immediately pivoting. Sometimes the better response is to pause, acknowledge grief, seek help, or accept that something cannot be repaired. Action always needs to be appropriate, not merely energetic.
This is a wonderful list. I particularly enjoyed #7 and what it implies for the nature vs. nurture debate. It takes a certain degree of emotional awareness to re-program the subconscious habits you pick up from others in your formative years.
Appreciate it much 🙏, kinda gives me the creeps once you direct it to me 😭…
But it’s a pure blessing to be able to observe it early in the morning and indulge in with it thought 😌.
Read this first thing in the morning & I'm glad I did so
Nice way to start a day reading this, a lot to take in.