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Day 150: Stoicism and CBT on Training the Mind | Dying Every Day

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Welcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 150.

“Men are disturbed not by the things that happen, but by the opinions about the things: for example, death is nothing terrible, for if it were, it would have seemed so to Socrates.” — Epictetus, Enchiridion

Epictetus is not making a philosophical argument. He is performing one.

He has taken the belief—death is terrible—and subjected it to a test. He has sought evidence and found a counterexample in Socrates, who faced death with equanimity.

Epictetus concluded from examination, not argument alone, that the terror lies in the opinion of death, not death itself.

This activity is philosophy as a cognitive practice. A man sitting alone, identifying a distorted belief, testing it against evidence, revising it, and recording the revision. Doing it again tomorrow. And the day after. [...]

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Day 152: Courage in Practice—Cato the Younger on Being Incorruptible | Dying Every Day

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Dying Daily: "You Decide What it Means" | Dying Every Day

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Day 151: The Unlived Life—Marcus Aurelius and Jung on Becoming Whole | Dying Every Day

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Day 149: Plato's Cave and the Cost of Ignorance | Dying Every Day

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Day 148: In Defense of the Examined Life | Dying Every Day

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Dying Daily: Two Paradoxes, One Truth | Dying Every Day

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Day 147: What Are You Running From?—Seneca and Socrates on Solitude | Dying Every Day

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