{"id":1329,"date":"2024-01-04T23:43:01","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T07:43:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2024-01-04T23:43:02","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T07:43:02","slug":"the-three-disciplines-of-stoicism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/the-daily-stoic\/01\/04\/the-three-disciplines-of-stoicism\/","title":{"rendered":"The Three Disciplines of Stoicism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>&#8220;All you need are these: certainty of judgment in the present moment; action for the common good in the present moment; and an attitude of gratitude in the present moment for anything that comes your way.&#8221;<\/p><cite>MARCUS AURELIUS, <em>MEDITATIONS<\/em>, 9.6<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Today in The Daily Stoic we are presented with the quote above by Marcus, which highlights <strong>the three disciplines of stoicism<\/strong>: Perception, Action, and Will.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is how author Ryan Holiday structured his book as well, in three parts to represent these disciplines.  He summarizes these disciplines and how to adhere to them as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Control your <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">perceptions<\/span>.<br>Direct your <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">actions<\/span> properly.<br>Willingly <span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">accept<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/the-daily-stoic\/01\/09\/control-and-how-to-know-the-difference\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/the-daily-stoic\/01\/09\/control-and-how-to-know-the-difference\/\">what&#8217;s outside your control<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Notice that Marcus&#8217; quote above said nothing about the past, nor anything about the future.  Again and again, his words remind us to<em> focus on the present moment<\/em>, for that is how we can influence future events \u2014 even if we can&#8217;t fully control them.  And the past, of course, is beyond anyone&#8217;s grasp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are three areas of stoicism that are helpful to understand, and they are: Perception, Action, and Will.  What must we do with each?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[548,232,87,212,310,328,295,32,84,370,145],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1329"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2460,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions\/2460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meditationsbybilly.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}