# Notes This page is a (rather unstructured) list of notes I took on stoicism. While I am not sure where exactly each not comes from, here is a list of likely places of origin: * The daily emails fom [The Daily Stoic](https://dailystoic.com/) * Somehwere form [r/soticism](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stoicism/) * From the book "The Daily Sotic" ## The actual notes * Is the voice in your head getting nicer? Are you more still? Are you practicing good self-care? That’s what progress looks like. That’s what you deserve as a human being—and as a friend. * Do Less, better. Stop trying to do everything, just do what is essential. It will make you calmer and also bring the satisfaction of doing the essential things with more care, better. * “What he was basically saying is that on the other side of difficulty is a gift—confidence. Simply *believing* that you’re capable of things you’ve never actually done or experienced, simply believing that you’re special and important without any evidence? Folks, that’s not your friend. That’s delusion!” * We need to look for common ground and use it. We need to see the good in other people and in other ideas and ignore the rest, whenever possible. * Yet too many of us reject that gift. We continue to think of long ago. We dream of or fear a distant future. We are distracted or preoccupied and miss what is happening around us. It’s the quiet evenings at home with family that we should be present for. It’s the ordinary present that we should cherish. * Beautiful choices—like physical fitness or perfect skin—are rarely as effortless as they seem. No, there is a regimen behind them. It takes exercise, it takes discipline, it takes sacrifice. * Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose. * “Whenever you do something you have decided ought be done, never try to avoid being seen doing it, even if people in general may disapprove of it. If, of course, your action is wrong, just don’t do it at all, but if it’s right, why be afraid of people whose criticism is off the mark?” * Talk less, listen more * Whish for the hard things to happen instead of fearing them, for those things help you lern and grow. They are opportunities, not punishments. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://wiki.christianpoplawski.de/stoicism/notes.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.