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No Self Flagellation Needed
Focusing on the Daily Stoic Meditation for June 28 — Adversity Reveals, as outlined by Ryan Holiday in the bestseller 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance and the Art Of Living.
“Philosophy calls for simple living, but not for penance — it’s quite possible to be simple without being crude.”
— SENECA, MORAL LETTERS, 5.5
Self Criticism
Many people have a tendency to resort straight to self criticism when something goes wrong in their life.
Many people often jump straight at attacking themselves and bringing themselves down whenever something gets slightly messed up in their life.
Many people work to bring themselves down — they speak negatively about themselves and they do everything they can to hurt themselves as a way of compensating for the situation.
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Self criticism, to an extent, is a good thing — you need to be honest with yourself and identify the mistakes you’ve made.
Being critical and developing an understanding of what’s going wrong in your life allows you to improve & positively grow from those things.
