This week, I am reading The Art of Living by one of the most essential names in Stoicism, Epictetus. He was born into slavery in present-day Pamukkale, Turkey. His name also means “acquired,” as he was a property under Roman law. As an enslaved person, his leg was tortured and broken by his owner, making… Continue reading
As an antidote to “time anxiety”… For the last couple of years, I’ve been experimenting with various time management techniques to “optimize” my time and, honestly, to do too many things at once. Among those techniques, I’ve mostly tried different versions of time blocking — where you block a time spot to do a specific… Continue reading
To be or to do? A short story about ego This week, I want to talk about a story that I read from Ryan Holiday’s best-selling book, Ego is the Enemy. For some reason, this story just stuck with me. A Turkish saying describes lessons from stories like this: Let it be an earring to… Continue reading
I didn’t have the chance to write much this week, so this will be a short post. Actually, I will steal a habit from Stoics to justify the length of this blog post. It’s a common Stoic practice to journal, meditate, reflect upon, and apply philosophical principles to real life. They believed that the repetition… Continue reading