Stoic mindset

After reading Mark Tuitert's book 'Drive' I became very interested in this philosophy: Stoicism.

A stoic mindset can train you and help you channel your drive and make you more effective, calm and successful, both sharp and relaxed. It is not the external factors that are important, but getting the best out of yourself and doing the right thing for others.

Here's a brief summary:

1. Use setbacks as indicators
   turn damage into growth, antifragile: profit from disorder
2. Less judging is more understanding
   do not act on your first impulse, weigh your emotions
3. Don't focus on winning
   control only what is in your power, focus on what you can influence
4. Team interest is also self interest
   treat your neighbor as yourself, mean a lot to others
5. Accept your fate and love it
   amor fati, love reality, no matter how hard: "every disadvantage has its advantage"
6. Death makes life epic
   "Dying is easy, anyone can do it" - Rene Gudde"
   "We die every day, because every day a part of our life is taken away" - Seneca
7. Happiness is a by-product
   'it's not about the destination, it's the journey', focus on what you do have, be grateful.
8. A map is useful, a compass even more so. Choose your direction that suits your nature.
   "If you don't know which port you are sailing to, no wind is favorable" - Senica
9. Character and personal development is your main project
   Pursue the cardinal virtues to grow into what you want to be: courage, temperance, justice and wisdom.
10. Actions are worth more than words
    Make choices, take action and be ambitious.

Socrates (469-399 v. Chr.) Greek philosopher

Cleanthes, Chrysippus (300 v. Chr.) Greek philosophers

Zeno (335-262 v. Chr.) Greek salesman, founder of stoicism

Seneca (-4-65 n. Chr.) Roman scholar, orator, statesman, writer (ice bath)

Epictetus (50-135 n. Chr.) from Roman slave to philosophy teacher

Marcus Aurelius (121-180 n. Chr.) Roman emperor