The 4 Signs of Emotional Maturity
Many people confuse communication with neediness.
“Show me someone sick and happy, in danger and happy, dying and happy, exiled and happy, disgraced and happy. Show me! By God, how much I’d like to see a Stoic.” — Epictetus
Ancient Stoic texts shallowly touch on emotional intelligence- it’s a critical flaw that has famed the philosophy with coldness, when it’s in-fact quite warm and a source of solace from the world’s harshness. So I took the pains to research on this subject and I found a way to connect what the Stoics used to write with deeper contextual wisdom from our contemporary philosophers like Alain De Botton of The School of Life.
You’ll realize that there are four signs of emotional maturity. These include:
1. Self-love
“What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.” — Seneca
Self-love is a healthy narcissism.
It’s the story you tell yourself when you…