February Challenge

#DailyStoic #book by Ryan Holiday

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By the way, I’ve already finished GRIT, and my next book for February—separate from this channel’s February challenge—is 21 Lessons for the 21st Century.

The summary of GRIT is on its way...

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#FebruaryChallenge starts today!

February - Passions and Emotions

Feb 1: For the hot-headed man
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Keep this thought handy when you feel a fit of rage coming on— it isn’t manly to be enraged. Rather, gentleness and civility are more human, and therefore manlier. A real man doesn’t give way to anger and discontent, and such a person has strength, courage, and endurance—unlike the angry and complaining. The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength.

— MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 11.18.5b

Why do athletes talk trash to each other? Why do they deliberately say offensive and nasty things to their competitors when the refs aren’t looking? To provoke a reaction. Distracting and angering opponents is an easy way to knock them off their game.

Try to remember that when you find yourself getting mad. Anger is not impressive or tough—it’s a mistake. It’s weakness. Depending on what you’re doing, it might even be a trap that someone laid for you.

Fans and opponents called boxer Joe Louis the “Ring Robot” because he was utterly unemotional—his cold, calm demeanor was far more terrifying than any crazed look or emotional outburst would have been.

Strength is the ability to maintain a hold of oneself. It’s being the person who never gets mad, who cannot be rattled, because they are in control of their passions—rather than controlled by their passions.

This excerpt is from Ryan Holiday’s book, Daily Stoic. It’s not something I wrote myself.

As I’ve already mentioned in the video I sent yesterday, I’ve been planning to share daily excerpts from the book throughout February.

Do let me know what y’all think and whether it is worth the effort.

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February 1 - For the hot-headed man

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Feb 2: A PROPER FRAME OF MIND
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Frame your thoughts like this—you are an old person, you won’t let yourself be enslaved by this any longer, no longer pulled like a puppet by every impulse, and you’ll stop complaining about your present fortune or dreading the future.

— MARCUS AURELIUS, MEDITATIONS, 2.2

We resent the person who comes in and tries to boss us around. Don’t tell me how to dress, how to think, how to do my job, how to live. This is because we are independent, self-sufficient people.

Or at least that’s what we tell ourselves.

Yet if someone says something we disagree with, something inside us tells us we have to argue with them. If there’s a plate of cookies in front of us, we have to eat them. If someone does something we dislike, we have to get mad about it. When something bad happens, we have to be sad, depressed, or worried. But if something good happens a few minutes later, all of a sudden we’re happy, excited, and want more.

We would never let another person jerk us around the way we let our impulses do. It’s time we start seeing it that way—that we’re not puppets that can be made to dance this way or that way just because we feel like it. We should be the ones in control, not our emotions, because we are independent, self-sufficient people.

IELTS ZONE - aim for the highest!

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#WritingHelp

What common mistake do you notice in the following sentences:

1. Teenagers are addicted to social media.

2. Fast food causes obesity

3. Social media has ruined real-life communication.

Almost everyone has correctly identified the problem: overgeneralization.

But what exactly is overgeneralization, and how can you avoid it?

Try correcting the issue in the three example sentences above.

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Hamkorligimiz Oʻzbek futboli uchun foydali bo‘ladi degan umiddaman.

Uzbekistan Professional Football League

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Actually, I’m on my way to another region I’d never been to before.