Episode 122 of the Stoic Poetry podcast deals with the weighty consequence we may incur early in our lives by way of the efforts we make to manage the risk of not doing life “right.” What price might there be to pay later?—when we’re old and staid and stable and our life’s “work” is complete. Maybe such consequence can be assuaged through golf, and shopping, and bridge and grand-babies or a manicured lawn, politics, gossip and TV? Perhaps… But what’s to be done if these do not, in fact, suffice? Perhaps it’s better then to be safe…but not too safe?—and to begin doing so while we are young, and too dumb, ignorant, broke and brave to know better. That’s a way to manage life risk: The Risk of Avoiding Risk.

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The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference.

Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone.

OBJECTIVES:

1. Be Always Ready to Die
2. Make Good Use of Time and Resources
3. Develop Good and Sound Life Principles
4. Cultivate Good Emotional Reactions
5. Perform Good Actions
6. Recognize True Limits and Opportunity
7. One Thing Slowly

PRINCIPLES:

1. Principle of War
2. Principle of Reason
3. Homunculus
4. Anchorhold
5. The Home of Good and Evil
6. Principle of Purpose
7. Atomic Principle
8. Principle of Nature
9. The Pirate Ride
10. Principle of Maturity
11. Social Principle
12. Public Speaking
13. 13. Temperance
14. Life Will Not Go Well
15. The Horror Show
16. That Which Must Be Borne
17. The Feast of Offal
18. Distraction
19. Agency and The Great Indifference
20. The Best Seat in the House
21. The Restless Man
22. The Path of Wildness
23. The Great Life Adventure
24. The Risk of Avoiding Risk
25. Sin and Damnation
26. Complete Oblivion
27. The Season of Philosophy
28. Bullseye Aim
29. The Uphill Climb
30. Arena and Utility
31. nothing IS enough
32. The Principle of Fun

My name is Kurt Bell

Learn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.

Be safe... But not too safe

Website: https://goingalone.org

Email: [email protected]

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