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EPISODE · Sep 14, 2021 · 5 MIN

5 - Plutarch on Tranquillity of Mind

from Cost of Glory · host Alex Petkas

How do you keep a positive frame of mind in challenging circumstances?  Troubles with loved ones, at work, with poverty, business?  Try this tool, drawn from a passage of Plutarch's moral writings (Moralia).Treatise mentioned: On Tranquility of Mind (from the Moralia)People Mentioned:Paccius - a Roman senator, not known outside of Plutarch's works.  Possibly a friend or acquaintance of Pliny the Younger, Tacitus.Epaminondas - Famous Theban general and statesman.  Major character in the Life of Pelopidas, brief mention in the Life of Eumenes.Fabricius - Famous Roman general and statesman.  Major character in the Life of Pyrrhus (also coming soon)Tool discussed: reframing the conception of external circumstances, in order to alter one's inner state.

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