Happy Tuesday everyone,
Today we will be talking about the Paradox of Control!
A summary from our presenter for today:
“We will be mainly focusing on Stoicism even though it also has applications in Taoism and Buddhism.
Topics covered include:
How do we negotiate our efforts and with the possibility of failure?
Is the power we attribute to ourselves and others real or legitimate?
Why do we ache to attach meaning to the events and actions in our lives? How do you live without attaching meaning to such things?
How do you come to trust yourself in the face of uncertainty? How do you have faith or courage yourself when you’re fully aware of how you’ve failed?
We claim these stoic concepts as positive and worth following - but do we ever really follow them? How feasible is it to apply these concepts in our lives?
Self-sabotage, anxiety, relationships, trust in oneself, we exalt flexibility yet punish and shame people for making mistakes, judgement and meaning as a crutch, social metrics of power”
Stop by today at 4:30-5:30 in PAHB 456 for more!
-Liv