The purpose of life is joy ?
Things as a means to joy?
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Things as a means to joy?
Perhaps I actually NEEDED this death in order to soar to higher heights?
once I already got my own Sparta, then what?
Executive summary In classical Stoicism, the nearest legitimate equivalent to “becoming a stoic god” is not emotional numbness, domination, or spiritual branding. It is an asymptotic approach to the sage: a human …
Executive summary Posttraumatic growth, usually abbreviated PTG, refers to positive psychological change that may emerge from the struggle with highly challenging life events, rather than from trauma exposure by itself. In the …
Executive summary “Mindful capital” is not yet a settled term of art in mainstream finance. In practice, it appears in a scattered way across practitioner organizations such as Mindful Capital Partners, Mindful …
Executive summary The label ZEN CAPITAL does not map neatly to a single global firm. The most verifiable current operating business behind the live zen-capital.es website is a Spain-based private group centered …
Executive Summary “Thinking like AI” is best treated as a practical discipline, not a mystical claim that humans should imitate machine consciousness. In the strongest analytical sense, it means making six things …
Executive summary Spartan economics was not a “moneyless warrior utopia.” It was a coercive agrarian political economy built on conquest, especially the seizure of Messenia, the subordination of helot labor, the outsourcing …
Executive summary The proposition that “what matters is not how much capital you own, but how mindful you are of it” is directionally supported by theory and a substantial body of adjacent …
“My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, …
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SPARTAN FRUGAL HEDONISM By ERIC KIM The modern man is confused. He thinks pleasure is expensive. He thinks luxury is a hotel, a sports car, a $28 cocktail, a $900 tasting menu, …
Executive summary “Spartan frugal hedonism” is best understood as a modern synthesis, not a classical school. In contemporary usage, “frugal hedonism” means spending less while learning to enjoy life more through attention, …
Executive summary The strongest conclusion from contemporary neuroscience and psychology is not that pain and pleasure are simple opposites, and also not that “more pain, more pleasure” is generally true. The more …
Executive summary Interpreted ethically, “conquering AI” should not mean dominating a sentient adversary or attempting a malicious takeover. It should mean building durable human control over advanced AI systems and the organizations …
Executive summary This report treats “the will to ambition” as an analytic construct rather than a settled term of art. In the literature reviewed here, motivation is a broad process that energizes …