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Old Jun 14, 2013, 06:33 PM
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Originally Posted by seeker1950 View Post
I don't know what you were reading, Sometimes. Sounds too simplistic and dismissive to me. Try reading Marcus Aurelius or Epictetus...or Seneca.
Twenty-First Century Stoic -- From Zen to Zeno: How I Became a Stoic - Boing Boing

So the guy in the above link wrote a book and that was what I was reading sort of like pop psych meets philosophy. It was actually interesting and used a technique called negative visualization where you use imagined negative outcomes to increase your joy in the present moment.
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