Seneca & Jesus born same year
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Memento Mori and Amor Fati: The Two Great Stoic Practices
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Mark Manson walks listeners through memento mori — the Stoic practice of regularly meditating on your own death as a tool for perspective and appreciation of the present — and amor fati, the practice of not merely accepting but actively loving whatever fate brings. Amor fati traces back to Zeno and Chrysippus and is perhaps the most counterintuitive Stoic idea: when something terrible happens, find a way to love it, find the opportunity within the hardship, don't resist the natural order of the universe. The initial human reaction to these concepts is often recoil, but practiced consistently, both generate a profundity of perspective that most other philosophical practices cannot match.
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