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How can we live stress free lives in an inherently stress driven work environment and life. We are constantly impressed by others more accomplished and drive ou
by boromi 7y ago
How can we live stress free lives in an inherently stress driven work environment and life. We are constantly impressed by others more accomplished and drive ourselves to try to attempt to reach their success. This is hard, plus we have social and money issues that drive us to worry. All of these are not easy to solve, and lead to a lot of daily stress.
- flatiron 7y agoHence the invention of alcohol.
- echelon 7y agoWhich, if used sans moderation, causes further aging.
- adrianrocamora 7y agoWe can revisit the stoic lessons from Marcus Aurelius, Seneca and Epictetus. I find them very useful for managing stress.
- paganel 7y ago> We are constantly impressed by others more accomplished and drive ourselves to try to attempt to reach their success. Not sure if this can be applied to your specific life situation but in my case after I had reached 30 years of age I realized that "chasing everyone else" is simply not worth the hassle, and, worst off, that it changed me into a person I didn't like, a "fake" me, so to speak. Mind you, I'm still stressed about money and bills and paying rent/mortgage like almost everyone else, not sure if there's a way of eliminating that, but for me at least it came as a huge stress reliever the fact that I didn't have to "chase" everybody else anymore. If it matters I came to that "realization" that chasing others is futile after I had read a compendium of Stoic writers (there is another HN-er mentioning Marcus Aurelius, and for good reasons), but I'm sure there are also other writers/thinkers that have written about this.