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Overcoming Dread with The Stoics
Find yourself struggling to overcome that foreboding sense of dread? Learn how you can stop the doom with the Stoics.
Raise your hand if you’ve felt a sense of foreboding dread in the last… oh, decade?
From existential angst to anxiety about an upcoming work presentation, feeling dread is a universal experience.
And it’s not always a bad thing. A little bit of healthy apprehension can motivate us to take action and get things done.
But when dread starts to take over our lives, it can be debilitating.
I know firsthand how paralyzing, and all-consuming dread can be. After years of struggling with seasons of anxious dread, I finally found some relief with the help of some long-dead philosophers.
No, really. Dead philosophers.
Dead Guys and Doom
I’m talking about the Stoics, a school of thought founded by Zeno of Citium in Athens in the 3rd century BC.
The Stoics were interested in using logic and reason to attain tranquility and peace of mind. For them, this meant learning how to deal with difficult
The Stoics believed that the best way to overcome dread is through the use of logic and reason. They believed that people should remain calm and rational…
