If you could pick four areas of life for a man to focus his time and attention towards that would benefit him the most, what would these four areas be?
A a young man in the pursuit of excellence, I would like to hear your opinions.
To keep it simple
4 words
4 areas
1 word for each area
I can boil it down to one word: stoicism. In the words of Epictetus the stoic can be “sick and yet happy, in peril and yet happy, dying and yet happy, in exile and happy, in disgrace and happy,”
Careful with this one. Like anger and fear, a very powerful and wonderful thing, but it has to be used correctly. Checked when needed and let loose when appropriate, it is a truly time tested weapon of those that win at life. But when wielded inappropriately, the downfall of many a great man.