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 mistake at the same time I know
thanks to my research on desire that
almost without exception the
philosophers and religious thinkers who
have contemplated life and the way
people normally live it have come to the
conclusion that it is the vast majority
of people who are making a mistake in
their manner of living these thinkers
have also tended to gravitate toward
tranquility as something very much worth
pursuing although many of them disagreed
with the Stoics on how best to pursue it
when I start having second thoughts
about stoicism my current practice is to
recall that we live in a world in which
certainty is possible only in
mathematics we live in other words in a
world in which no matter what you do you
might be making a mistake this means
that although it is true that I might be
making a mistake by practicing stoicism
I might also be making a mistake if I
reject stoicism in favor of some other
philosophy of life and I think the
biggest mistake the one made by a huge
number of people is to have no
philosophy of life at all these people
feel their way through life by following
the promptings of their evolutionary
programming by assiduously seeking out
what feels good and avoiding what feels
bad by doing this they might have a
comfortable life or even a life filled
with pleasure
the question remains however whether
they could have a better life by turning
their back on their evolutionary
programming and instead devoting time
and energy to acquiring a philosophy of
life according to the Stoics the answer
to this question is that a better life
is possible one containing perhaps less
comfort and pleasure but considerably
more joy
I suspect that in coming decades should
I live that long whatever doubts I may
have had about stoicism will fall by the
wayside as the aging process takes its
toll
stoic techniques can improve a life when
times are good but it is when times are
bad that the efficacy of these
techniques becomes most apparent if I
find stoicism to be beneficial in my
sixth decade of life I am likely to find
it to be indispensable in my eighth or
ninth decade unless I am an unusual
person
my biggest tests in life lie ahead I
will I think be glad to have developed
an understanding and appreciation of
stoicism before these tests are
administered it would be nice to have a
proof that stoicism or some other
philosophy of life is the correct
philosophy
unfortunately the proof offered by the
Stoics is unconvincing and an
alternative proof is unlikely to be
forthcoming in the absence of such a
proof
we must act on the basis of
probabilities for a certain kind of
person for a person in certain
circumstances with a certain personality
type there are many reasons to think
that stoicism is worth a try practicing
stoicism doesn't take much effort indeed
it takes far less effort than the effort
one is likely to waste in the absence of
a philosophy of life one can practice
stoicism without anyone's being any the
wiser and one can practice it for a time
and then abandon it and be no worse off
for the attempt there is in other words
little to lose by giving stoicism a try
as one's philosophy of life and there is
potentially much to gain indeed
according to Marcus it is possible
through the practice of stoicism to gain
a whole new life