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That you're posting this is excellent and admirable. I personally take two approaches when I feel any kind of resentment toward people who seem to have enormou
by Diederich 8y ago
That you're posting this is excellent and admirable.
I personally take two approaches when I feel any kind of resentment toward people who seem to have enormous and/or unfair advantages.
I first consider my own objective advantages. Instead of being born into a solid middle class home in Southern California a few decades ago, I could have been born in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Yemen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Yemen recently, or almost anywhere in the world more than a century ago.
That I am here posting on Hacker News puts me in the (at least) top 1% most fortunate humans who have ever lived.
Secondly, I consistently walk in and practice https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoicism It's kind of my own version of it, I guess a modernized variant of what's found in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditations https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meditations
I've found that these perspectives help me with all kinds of psychological challenges.