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One of the saddest and most puzzling phenomena of psychological life are the incidents commonly known as breakdowns, in which 
people find themselves suddenly unable to carry out their normal duties, and fall silent, take to bed, and cannot stop crying.

It can look mysterious form the outside, but what is almost always happening is an attempt to untie a lie that someone else has
surreptitiously knotted into our lives. Beneath the breakdown, a long repressed truth is trying to break through layers of de-
-ception. A person is unable to function 'normally' because 'normality' has grown riddled with something incoherent, mean, and im-
-possible. The break down is a logical bid for health and truth, masquerading as an illness. 

What has made us ill tends to be a variety of perverse injunctions, under which those we trusted may have made us live. For example,
I'm ostensibly asking you to succeed, but I won't love you if you do; or you must fail in order that I can bear my disappointments;

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This is a film about Stoicism, and why you need more of it in your life, because as people seldom tell you, but we will, quietly,
(Life is very difficult).

Stoicism was a philosophy that flourished for 480 years in ancient Greece and Rome, as was popular with everyone from slaves to
the aristocracy, because unlike so much philosophy, it was helpful, helpful when we panic, want to give up, despair, and rage
at existence. We still honor this philosophy whenever I think of someone as brave, and without perhaps quite knowing why call
them "stoic". 

There were two great philosophers of stoicism. The first is the Roman writer and tutored Niero Seneca. He lived between AD 4 and
AD 65. That's right, tutor to Nero, the infamous dicator who slept with his own mother, raped young boys, and just because he

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Eastern philosophy has always had very similar goals to Western philosophy -- that of making us wiser, less agitated, more thou-
-ghtful, and readier to appreciate our lives. However, the way that Eastern philosophy has gone about this has been intriguingly
different. 

In the East, philosophy has taught its lessons via tea-drinking ceremonies, walks in bamboo forests, or contemplations of rivers.
Here are a few ideas to offer us the distinctive wisdom of a continent and enrich our notions of what philosophy might really
be.

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For most of history, the overwhelming majority of the Earth inhabitants have owned more or less, nothing: the clothes they
stood up in, some bowls, a pot and a pan, perhaps a broom.  And if things are going really well, a few farming implements.
Nations and peoples remained consistantly poor. Global GDP did not grow at all form year to year. The world was in aggregate
as hard up in 1800 as it had been at the beginning of time.

However, starting in the Early 18th century, in the countries of Northwestern Europe, a remarkable phenomenon occurred. Ec-
-onomies began to expand and wages to rise. Families who'd can never before have any money, beyond what they need to just to
survive, found they could go shopping for small luxuries, a comb or a mirror, a spare set of underwear, a pillow, some thicker
boots or a towel. Their expanditure created a virtuous economic cycle: the more they spend, the more business grew, the more
wages rose. 

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Adam Smith is our guide to perhaps the most pressing dilemma of our time: how to make a capitalist economy more human, and
more meaningful. He was born in Scottland in Kirkcaldy, a small manufacturing town near Edingburgh, in 1723. He was a hard-
-working student, and very close to his mother. He then became an academic philosopher, wrote a major book about the import-
-ance of sympathy, and lectured on logic and aesthetics. 

He was also one of the greatest thinkers in the history economics, in part because his concerns went far beyond the economic.
He wanted to understand the money system, because his underlying ambition was to make nations and people happier. Smith
remains an invaluable to guide to four ideas:

1. Specialization

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The association between the great Irish writer Samuel Beckett and the game of cricket deserves to be more widely known. He
was a fine player when (as) a student at Trinity College of Dublin, and merit To mention in at Wisden, The Cricketer's
Bible, the only Nobel Prize winner to be so lauded. On one occasion in the mid 1960s, Beckett traveled from Paris to London
to watch the test match between England and Australia. 

It was a beautiful sunny summer afternoon -- blue skys, lauds cricket ground, green and glorious. One of his friends remarked: "
What a wonderful day, this is the sort of that would've make you glad to be alive." To which Beckett responded drily, "I 
wouldn't go as far as that."

The story nicely encampasses two aspects of Samuel Beckett -- his famously bleak view of life, and his mordant sense of

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This is a philosopher who helps us think about money, capitalism, and our runaway consumer societies. Epicurus was an ancient
Greek, born in 341 B.C. What made him famous was that he spent all his life trying to work out the largest puzzle there is:
what makes people happy?

Philosophers before him had discussed at length what could make people good. Epicurus prefer to look at what's fun. Unfor-
-tunately, the world was bitter and bitchy even then, and when Epicurus had set up a school to study happiness, the rumors
went off the scale. There were tales that school hosted ten-course feasts and orgies every night; Epicurus was said by one
critic to have orgasmed 18 times in a single evening in a bed filled with virgins. It wasn't true.

Epicurus and his team were studying happiness, but they were doing it very soberly. The philosopher owned only two cloaks,

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In dark honest moments, we are liable to recognize with considerable agony that there is so much missing from our lives. We
've been unable to get quite the career we wanted; our partners may leave us largely unfulfilled; we may have made some 
catastrophic mistakes that can never be corrected; our appearance might be shameful and in decline; and there is, correspond-
-ingly, so much that we envy.

No philosopher has ever taken envy more seriously than Friedrich Nietzsche. The 19th century German philosopher described
it as the most important emotion at work in individual and collective life. In his writings, he refer to it with a slightly
unusual word, the French term "ressentiment", which places emphasis on the humiliation we experience in the face of what 
we desire but cannot have. 

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One of the strangest yet most intriguing aspects of Friedrich Nietzsche's ideas is his repeated enthusiasm for a concept
that he called Amor Fati. Translated from the Latin, as a love of one's fate, or as we might put it, a resolute and entus-
-iastic acceptance of everything that has happened in one's life. The person of Amor Fati doesn't seek to erase anything
of their past, but rather accepts what has occured -- the good and the bad, the mistaken and the wise, with strength and
an  all-embracing gratitude that borders on a kind of enthusiastic affection. 

This refusal to regret and retouch the past is heralded as a virtue at many points in Nietzsche's work. In his book The Gay
Science, written during a period of great personal hardship for the philosopher, Nietzsche writes, "I want to learn more 
and more, to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who makes things beautiful. Amor
Fati, let that be my love henceforth! I don't want to wage war against ugly; I don't want t

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