{"id":67804,"date":"2023-02-12T07:29:57","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T07:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/?p=67804"},"modified":"2023-03-14T08:41:55","modified_gmt":"2023-03-14T08:41:55","slug":"is-this-really-the-life-i-want","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/is-this-really-the-life-i-want\/","title":{"rendered":"is this really the life I want?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tijdens een wandeling trof ik in een boekenkastje <em>The Daily Stoic<\/em> van Ryan Holiday. Wat heeft de dag in petto? Op 12 februari staat dit:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><small>PROTECT YOUR PEACE OF MIND<\/small><br><em>Keep constant guard over your perceptions, for it is no small thing<br>you are protecting, but your respect, trustworthiness and steadi-<br>ness, peace of mind, freedom from pain and fear, in a word your<br>freedom. For what would you sell these things? <\/em><small>EPICTETUS, DISCOURSES, 4.3.6b-8<\/small><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The dysfunctional job that stresses you out, a contentious relationship, life in the spotlight. Stoicism, because it helps us manage and think through our emotional reactions, can make these kinds of situations easier to bear. It can help you manage and mitigate the triggers that seem to be so constantly tripped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But here&#8217;s a question: Why are you subjecting yourself to this? Is this<br>really the environment you were made for? To be provoked by nasty<br>emails and an endless parade of workplace problems? Our adrenal glands<br>can handle only so much before they become exhausted. Shouldn&#8217;t you<br>preserve them for life-and-death situations?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So yes, use Stoicism to manage these difficulties. But don&#8217;t forget to<br>ask: <em>Is this really the life I want?<\/em> Every time you get upset, a little bit<br>of life leaves the body. Are these really the things on which you want<br>to spend tliat priceless resource? Don&#8217;t be afraid to make a change \u2014 a big one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ik blader door <em>The daily stoic<\/em>: 365 dagen. De app die ik onlangs heb gedownload biedt er 1 euro voor. Ik hoef het enkel in een doos te doen, de randen stevig dicht te plakken, iemand komt de doos aan de deur ophalen, neemt zelf adreslabels mee, geen probleem dat mijn printer stuk is. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ik aarzel, gebruik het boek als horoscoop op dagen als deze.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vanavond kijken we The Greatest Showman (2017) over P.T. Barnum, die mijn goedgelovigheid, mijn wens om alles op mezelf te betrekken wat enigszins te geloven valt, doorhad: &#8216;A sucker is born every minute.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>[The Barnum Effect; als je Ryan Holiday heet klinkt dat voor een Amerikaan dan even gek als Piet Vakantie voor mij?]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tijdens een wandeling trof ik in een boekenkastje The Daily Stoic van Ryan Holiday. Wat heeft de dag in petto? Op 12 februari staat dit: PROTECT YOUR PEACE OF MINDKeep constant guard over your perceptions, for it is no small thingyou are protecting, but your respect, trustworthiness and steadi-ness, peace of mind, freedom from pain<a href=\"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/is-this-really-the-life-i-want\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4726,1771],"tags":[4727,4728,4489,4729],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67804"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67804"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67804\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67919,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67804\/revisions\/67919"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}