Guide to a Good Life Flashcards
What is the definition of a Stoic?
Someone who tries to get rid of all negative emotions
What is the definition of tranquility?
Absence of negative emotions
What is negative visualization?
Imagining that what ever you have is gone
What is the father daughter story regarding negative visualization?
Explain
What is hedonic adapatation?
Getting used to what you have and always wanting more?
What is projective visualization?
Wearing another person’s shoes. What would you do if that happened to someone else?
What is the dichotomy of control
There are some things you do control and some things you do not
What is the trichotomy of control
Same thing as dichotomy except there are some things you have some control over
What is self denial?
Denying yourself of some basic things that you have. Comfort - warmth - clothes
What is the gratest source of enjoyment in life?
Loving others
What are the two ways we can be unhappy?
Insatiability and worrying about things we can’t control
What does it mean to be fatalistic?
What is in the past is in the past
