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Figs in Winter

·Dec 1, 2020

I’m not sure why someone couldn’t enjoy something without being attached to it. That’s what both Stoics and Buddhists maintain. Seneca is simply saying that one way to train ourselves to reduce our attachment to things is to do without them, from time to time.

As far as I understand antifragility is used to argue that people like Seneca could enjoy the…
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Stefano Grillo

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