Tag: Philosophy
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Are you wasting your time?
“Nothing… is ours, except time. We were entrusted by nature with the ownership of this single thing, so fleeting and slippery that anyone who will can oust us from possession.” — Seneca, Letters from a Stoic We all deal with procrastination. The looming task (or tasks) ahead seem so daunting and tough to overcome. It…
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A coffee bean helped me write a college essay.
“A blazing fire makes flame and brightness out of everything that is thrown into it.” – Marcus Aurelius I will be writing a series of articles on what I’ve learned from my readings and exercises in Stoicism, a branch of philosophy with very practical implications. This is article 1 of that series. I hope to…
Waleed Shaban 