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Stoic Career
by Matt Schmidt
Career resilience through Stoic philosophy
Episodes
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Dealing With Stress
Stress in unavoidable- that is a hard fact of life. However, it seems like some people have the worst luck when it comes to their stress burden, almost as if they are inviting it in. Turns out, there are certain risks that are clearly associated with an increased burden of stress, even though you...
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Dealing With Disappointment
Your life is filled with opportunities for achievement. You can achieve more if you allow you failures to create opportunities instead of seeing them as obstacles you can’t overcome. Psychologists believe that failure creates opportunities for achievement because failure helps you increase your...
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Losing Your Temper
Stress is a great part of the work we do. It is easy to lose our temper and lash out when the stress boils over. It can also affect us by bringing things stress home from work and vice versa. Emotions by themselves are neither good nor bad. They just are. It is how you allow your emotions to...
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Adapt Or Quit
Change is part of the work we do. We need to adapt to changes. If we cannot change we must quit. We all go through tough situations where things seem not to work regardless of our invested efforts. We then wonder if the goal is worth all the trouble. Where we think it is indeed worth it, we ask...
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Dealing With Pressure
Pressure. It is an aspect of work that must be dealt with. Dealing with it means fortitude. The word fortitude, meaning “courage in pain or adversity”, is a term associated with individuals that refuse to give up when times get hard. Regardless of the time period, this character trait has always...
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The Importance Of Time
Being an professional entails many professional and personal traits. It takes a lot to be able to manage and grow in your career.. As a result, professionals have to be extra careful with every decision, and being able to manage their time correctly is an invaluable skill. Here are four, time...
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What do you regret?
What do you regret? This is a question that is asked by interviewers. But there is much wrapped up with the word emotion. But it is important to understand the concept of regret. Regrets are common with millions of people around the world. It is considered a negative state of mind and most people...
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Failure Is An Opportunity
What is your greatest failure? Your life is filled with opportunities for achievement. You can achieve more if you allow you failures to create opportunities instead of seeing them as obstacles you can’t overcome.
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The Reason For Purpose
The number one reason why most people are not happy at their jobs is that they made the mistake of failing to link their life purpose to their career choice when choosing a profession. You may have taken up the job offer because you are well paid or because you wanted something to help put food…
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The Resilient Mindset
We all have faced adversity in our careers. A bad boss. A project that did not come out well. Cold calling in sales with no results. Losing our job and starting over again. In order to move from a place of simply surviving in life to a place of thriving, resilience is a necessary trait. At a…
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Are You A Small Fish Or A Big Fish?
That last line of this passage from Seneca Moral Letter 43 verse 2 : A ship which looms large in the river seems tiny when on the ocean. A rudder which is large for one vessel, is small for another. Does it sound familiar? Think of the phrase a big fish in a small pond or a small fish in a big...
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Improving Your Communication Skills
Seneca's Moral Letter 40 is a wonderful work on the importance of communication in the philosophers message. Your ability to communicate is not only important for your career success but also for your personal growth and happiness. Soft skills, like being able to communicate ideas or persuade...
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Losing Your Self-Confidence
So many aspects of our careers depend on self confidence. But what happens when your self confidence falters? It could be you are stressed out and seek a change of employment. Maybe you are now unemployed and are looking for a job. Situations like these require doing a job search. But there may…
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Take Control Of Your Life
Enchiridion 8 shows that we need to be realistic in what we can expect in life. We cannot have things go our way all the time. We have to accept what happens in life for tranquility. We can take control of aspects of our lives to deal with what happens. There is a common idea that “life is a...
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Starting Means A Growth Mindset
Meditations 2.2 brings out the importance of the directing mind. The directing mind helps us to focus. Many people starting over in their career need not only the directing mind but a growth mindset. A growth mindset allows the individual to learn and grow in all aspects of life including our...
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Career resilience through Stoic philosophy
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