I like this advice as far as it goes, but I’ll just point out you seem to be talking about a folk version of stoicism that is not necessarily the same thing as stoicism proper, since that philosophy is more precise than “don’t worry too much” or something similar. You can have replaced “stoicism” with “zen” and this would have read the same I think and I would have had the same comment. There is probably some other, better word to describe the category of things you’re pointing at that doesn’t have a more specific meaning.
Yeah, my second round of edits involved replacing Stoicism with “stoic mindset” in most of the post, but I agree a word that has less attached baggage might be better. I couldn’t think of anything ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I like this advice as far as it goes, but I’ll just point out you seem to be talking about a folk version of stoicism that is not necessarily the same thing as stoicism proper, since that philosophy is more precise than “don’t worry too much” or something similar. You can have replaced “stoicism” with “zen” and this would have read the same I think and I would have had the same comment. There is probably some other, better word to describe the category of things you’re pointing at that doesn’t have a more specific meaning.
Yeah, my second round of edits involved replacing Stoicism with “stoic mindset” in most of the post, but I agree a word that has less attached baggage might be better. I couldn’t think of anything ¯\_(ツ)_/¯