Stoic Tranquillity in Chaos
You lose your path and falter because:
You don’t recognise the importance of strategy and resource management. You ignore the natural rules governing things and feel helplessly controlled by your base instincts.
You often forget the significance of your goals, not just to yourself but also to your values and the things you hold dear.
You aren’t emotionally invested in achieving your objectives at every step. You often forget the joy and meaning their pursuit brings to your life, as well as the necessity of consistent, coordinated effort to stay reliably on track toward your goals.
You obsess over trivial matters. This distracts you from your purpose, exhausts the enthusiasm and energy necessary to pursue it and adversely affects your self-confidence.
You doubt your resolve and strength. This insecurity peaks when you feel weak or when the work seems uninteresting and unimportant. You often forget that your mind should control your emotions, rather than the other way around.
You don’t fully understand the role of physiological processes and the importance of a robust, well-functioning body to enduring the challenges involved in the fulfilment of your purpose.
You’re overly reliant on adrenaline and the boundaries set by instinctive emotions instead of rational judgment. You tend to give up too quickly under mental duress. You forget that you can persist to the full extent of your physical capabilities, and most importantly, persistence guarantees the only kind of victory that matters—the mastery of will.
In moments of perceived physical weakness or fatigue, you neglect that your essential capabilities remain unaffected. The apparent diminution in your self-control is not determinative of the outcome—you can take measures to counter its adverse effects. You don’t consistently enforce your rational judgment in every circumstance.
You don’t sufficiently appreciate the necessity of a principled approach, and that all actions yield consequences. You allow temptations or immediate gains to compromise your commitment to unwavering principles. Once that occurs, you follow a self-reinforcing path of rationalising moral infirmity, often under the guise of unavoidable urgency.
You succumb to anger, fear, and other base emotions, often under the misconception that their effects will be short-lived and not impact your life overall. Consequently, you forget that the ultimate goal is to elevate the self through achieving absolute self-control; all externally aimed objectives are merely means to that end.
