Stoicism

This article is about GritCult's view of Stoicism. For a general overview, see Stoicism on Wikipedia.

Stoicism
“Is it over for stoic bros?” (6 January 2025)
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Stoicism done right, for GritCult, is total command of one's own mind: an emotional stability that others mistake for coldness, though he himself equates having no emotions with clarity. Detachment, objectivity, contempt for the external. But it's a tool on the barbell, not a personality, and sometimes he puts it down and lets everything piss him off.

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GritCult's starting complaint is that most people simply do not understand stoicism ^[1]. Writing about emotional stability in 2024, he notes that some dismiss it as being cold and stoic, and answers that they don't understand: being in TOTAL control of one's own mind is, for him, one of the greatest powers anyone can have, and no emotions means clarity ^[2]. His 2018 notes headed "stoic" set out the practice: keep compliments from going to the head, do not take complaints to heart, and cultivate true objectivity of self and true independence ^[3]. Later that year he draws the line against meditation: meditation is thought detachment, stoicism is constant detachment, and attachment is an illusion ^[4].

He also draws a line most people miss: thinking too much is not stoic but emotional, because too many thoughts are an emotional response ^[5]. For the practice itself he looks to Rome, where, he says, Stoics would deliberately get bad haircuts and wear bad clothes to test their resolve, to show they truly did not give a fuck about anything external ^[6]. Indifference, on this reading, has to be tested, not merely claimed.

Nor is it to be worshipped. Life runs on a barbell: either really serious or really in the mood to joke, either really stoic or really epicurean, and knowing when to use each tool is the whole game ^[7]. And some days, he says, it is time to say fuck rationality, fuck stoicism, fuck trying to be calm, and to let everything piss him off, because that fire is fuel when calm won't move him ^[8]. The real target is passivity: the post ends with an order to stop being passive and start being angry ^[8].

Recurring themes

• control of mind; no emotion as clarity
• detachment from externals as practice
• the barbell: stoic vs epicurean
• overthinking is itself emotion
• testing resolve, building antifragility
• when to abandon calm and feel

Notable post

The most retweeted GritCult post on the subject, with 955 retweets:

Selected posts

The 120 most retweeted of 133 posts in the archive about Stoicism. Select a column heading to sort.

Date	Retweets	Likes	Post	Media	Source
6 January 2025	955	23,309	Is it over for stoic bros?		View
18 March 2025	182	3,079	stoicism		View
18 December 2024	90	937	sometimes you gotta say fuck rationality, fuck stoicism and fuck logic. fuck making sense and trying to be calm and you gotta start taking shit personally, just let everything piss u the fuck off so u can feel that fire fuel inside of you. stop being passive, start being angry		View
23 August 2018	30	176	barbell strategy to life : either really serious or really in the mood to joke either really stoic or really epicurean knowing how to balance this and when to use the tools in most optimal fashion		View
2 October 2018	24	96	You can be a slave to logic as much as you can be a slave to emotion. Reflections on stoic/epicurean dichotomy.		View
19 August 2018	19	118	broke : inspirational twitter woke : me posting depressing facts, stats and trends so you internalise a level of relative stoicism making you more antifragile in real life, thus benefiting from new insights you have come to through via your own socratic dialogue		View
31 August 2018	16	55	stoic don't let compliments get to your head and don't take complaints to heart cultivate true objectivity of self. and true independence people will sacrifice truth for temporary people Don’t Take Anything Personally. Establish and take control over your own frame.		View
13 December 2022	13	81	If you think too much. You are not stoic. You are emotional. Too many thoughts are an emotional response.		View
27 February 2024	9	160	The older you get the more you understand how necessary being emotionally stable is. Some say it’s being cold and stoic. They don’t understand. But being in TOTAL control of your own mind. Is one of the greatest powers anyone can have. NO EMOTIONS = CLARITY		View
5 June 2018	7	24	also also why a person can "quick" but they can still be a fool and lack common sense knowledge =/= wisdom which is why i recommend my young bucks to learn stoicism and how to reason by learning mental models of rationality and critical thinking. philosophy => mind software		View
29 September 2019	6	40	The black pill is meant to be consumed in order to better fortify your internal memetic immune systems. It’s a vaccine against greater calamities. Think of the stoics who used to practice the thought of visualising the worst possible scenarios and realising “life goes on.”		View
22 July 2021	5	61	broke : inspirational twitter woke : me posting depressing facts, stats and trends so you internalise a level of relative stoicism making you more antifragile in real life, thus benefiting from new insights you have come to through via your own socratic dialogue		View
9 February 2018	5	50	shower thoughts: maybe the rise in stoicism has been what Nietzsche was talking about the ubermensch start to making their own values in a world that has no meaning.		View
10 November 2019	5	6	@tomxhart Being stoic makes it easier to kill and commit acts that would break those susceptible to emotions. You also should mention Marcus Aurelius’ drive for expansion of empire. And his hatred of Christians. See also : warrior monks.		View
13 January 2023	4	91	Stoics in Ancient Rome would purposely get bad haircuts and wear bad clothes. To test their resolve. To show they truly did not give a fuck about anything external to them.		View
10 August 2025	4	86	Some of the biggest cucks in history were stoics fwiw.		View
10 August 2018	4	20	siri, what did peter theil, a major player in big tech, major in at standford? siri : philosophy there is plenty of philosophy in silicon valley, all trying to compete on whos life is the most examined they even gamified stoicism and meditation		View
30 October 2018	4	14	Meditation = thought detachment. Stoicism = constant detachment. Attachment is an illusion.		View
9 August 2018	4	13	Dont Listen to these IYIs stoicism, self improvement and learning of virtues is essential in living a good life the modern world wants you to mindlessly consume no notion of dedication, or striving then they blame toxic masculinity and patriachy lost		View
27 May 2018	4	9	response to the above i think the epipany stage stems from culture and being taught one can come to this intra-culture of the mind, by convergent meme trajectories [how similar traits evolve via different paths] being taught scientific method/indifference and stoicism will help		View
22 October 2018	4	4	This is IT chieftain. FUCK NIRVANA a quotable. I too prefer stoicism		View
6 November 2018	4	3	Default mode : AGGRESSIVE. This is true stoic meditation. Singular focus mode. Let go of that whole dude abides shit. Get that energy. “extreme success results from an extreme personality. Be obsessed.” -Justine Musk.		View
8 March 2019	3	70	you can live a rich life and still be detached/stoic		View
25 May 2021	3	52	Most people sinply do not understand stoicism.		View
14 July 2021	3	42	barbell strategy to life : either really serious or really in the mood to joke either really stoic or really epicurean knowing how to balance this and when to use the tools in most optimal fashion		View
30 September 2018	3	36	last year i was going to organise a stoic weekend retreat logistics required too much effort relative to pay off pay off : intense learning and networking. walking and talking about philosophy may do attempt another IRL lyceum in the foreseeable future as i like the concept		View
25 January 2019	3	17	Most people in the world are SOY. They rebuke the notion of death. Scared of it. Fear it. This is not Bushido. This is not stoic, it is nihilistic avoidance of a truth. Of reality. "Who knows the end ? What has risen may sink & what has sunk may rise."		View
16 May 2018	3	8	"A nation is born stoic and dies epicurean." - Will Durant.		View
21 August 2018	3	7	“The penalty for not participating in politics is to be governed by your inferiors” plato “man is a political animal” aristotle focus on self, but biologically bound to humanity see stoic cosmopolitanism see roman duty social capital = honest signal		View
18 October 2018	2	24	In stoicism, there is a practice called insult pacifism. Someone insults you, you insult yourself further. Ie -"Ur ugly" -"yeah im fat too" tweeted on this day last year on this account.		View
19 September 2018	2	14	Decadence is unbecoming. Nations are built stoic. With blood and soil.		View
24 June 2018	2	4	stoic thought The Stoic motto “live according to nature” - epictetus are we social animals? - levels of hierarchy of (preferred indifferents)/(goods by relation) principle of oikeiôsis/cosmopolitanism. Hierocles : his ideas of a series of contracting circles of concern:		View
20 November 2020	1	72	Practicing stoicism Rn. Lost couple hundred via gambling today.		View
11 July 2021	1	64	This is what stoicism is meant to look like.		View
26 June 2023	1	59	Currently thinking about what book to send to a family member in prison? What would you recommend? I was thinking the stoic classics		View
14 February 2021	1	28	PEOPLE WILL LAUGH AT STOICISM YET GET TRIGGERED BY SOCIAL MEDIA		View
29 June 2023	1	21	Nah it didn’t Stoicism is a timeless 3000 year old idea. It won’t really “die” it’s a corner stone of all thought		View
8 September 2018	1	17	I only practice stoicism, because I am TOO hot blooded		View
25 May 2018	1	15	DNA of conservatives tends to wipe out in wars, returns to the mean see the meme of strong men create good times -> weak men-> bad times "a nation born stoic, dies epicurean" could have genetic basis but as time goes on, war happens less what happens to genes in the future ?		View
19 June 2018	1	14	[disclaimer: im straight edge and it goes against stoicism] [disclaimer II : i was at that place, due to me being high in openness and extraversion - manifests in creativity and wide interests etc] the broke coke fiend, tells me, i shouldnt be saying that i was flabergasted.		View
20 October 2018	1	13	Esoteric stoic.		View
20 November 2020	1	11	no one is as insufferable as the people whose personalities are shaped by the most recent book, or film they consumed overnight catholics one day, stoic buddhists the next the worst thing about modernity is the proliferation of the midwit dunning kruger		View
12 June 2021	1	8	MEDITATION = THOUGHT DETACHMENT. STOICISM = CONSTANT DETACHMENT. ATTACHMENT IS AN ILLUSION. …		View
27 April 2018	1	6	reading a book on japanese minimalism, its meh as minimalism is an escape of things - escaping reality, they are just things. materialism misunderstood can be hell, it can also serve purpose stoicism is knowing things dont matter, or rather you ought to be indifferent to them		View
17 August 2018	1	6	stoicism, i believe, may have also pushed me to first principles, scrutinous logic and ruthless rationality		View
17 April 2018	1	4	Stoicism teaches us that, before we try to control events, we have to control ourselves first. Our attempts to exert influence on the world are subject to chance, disappointment, and failure--but control of the self is the only kind that can succeed 100% of the time.		View
6 June 2018	1	4	stoicism, psychedelics and death.		View
24 September 2018	1	4	I would like to reach psychopathic levels of stoicism. No emotion. Only : Toil, Blood & Soil.		View
30 October 2018	1	4	it means attempting to do so. but being completely stoic, is not for everyone. vulcans in star trek lore are only stoic, because their emotions are more intense than that of humans		View
10 July 2018	1	3	stoic reflection ties in with samurai reflections on death thread :		View
5 June 2018	1	2	“In largest frame, everything is fine.” sounds very much like the message Lucius Annaeus Seneca preached to Roman readers of the mid-first century, relying on Stoic philosophy, rather than an organic hallucinogen, as a way to glimpse that truth Interconnectedness of all things		View
23 June 2018	1	2	note sympathy =/= empathy both sympathy and empathy => rooted in Greek word "pathos" meaning “feelings, emotion, or passion.” Stoics differentiated: involuntary emotional reactions (propatheiai) unhealthy emotions (pathē) healthy ones (eupatheiai)		View
9 August 2018	1	2	stats show this too. more stoicism, more male guidance.		View
2 March 2018	1	1	I dont think you need religion to appreciate traditionalism. Thats Hitchens downfall. One can extrapolate from stoicism the notion of preferred indifferents and apply it to cultural heuristics.		View
22 April 2018	1	1	two come to me: satre and neitzsche on ubermen and sisyphus a type of stoicism and acceptance the state of world is the state of the world, the more i learn and peer into the crystal ball of history the more i realise the world was always similar, either way it doesnt matter		View
5 June 2018	1	1	Wealth and position were regarded by the Stoics as adiaphora, “indifferents,” conducing neither to happiness nor to its opposite. Freedom and health were desirable only in that they allowed one to keep one’s thoughts and ethical choices in harmony with Logos, the divine Reason.		View
9 June 2018	1	1	@aknhkns i think religion is a more powerful meme in terms of mind virus more encapsulating helps create more of an identity although i still highly recommend everyone read into modern stoicism, you have to constantly be on the ball with it, its a way of thinking unlike religion imo		View
27 November 2018	1	1	@TheHedonist5 @0x49fa98 Empathy is over rated as a heuristic. I use egotistic altruism to make sure my behaviours fit a socially acceptable pattern up to a limit. Consequential reasoning. But even sympathy and empathy are different. Stoics embrace one not the other.		View
15 May 2018	1	0	The Stoic philosopher (and former slave) Epictetus opined that ‘men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them’.		View
28 June 2018	1	0	@ALT_70V3 im not sure but if you want balance - see golden mean by aristotle he says virtue consists of balance personally im a neo-stoic only do if it serves a purpose also fits in with the heiracrhy of good ive derived from aristotle here :		View
15 October 2018	1	0	@LeaWSol @primetheus2 @bronzeagemantis It's pretty basic stoic philosophy too Among others. I think it's a way of deflection too. If someone curses you or something. The less.		View
19 November 2018	1	0	@DonStoppable This is the crux of most debate to be honest. Things get lost in translation. Why at the Beginning one must seek to understand the other person. I value stoicism as strength. Think masculinity and femininity should be separate entities.		View
25 November 2018	1	0	@punknomad Don't really pay it mind. Stoicism helps. Can you change it ? If yes. Then do so. If no. Then do not. Mind recursion is hell.		View
24 July 2023	0	30	Practicing stoicism Rn. Lost couple hundred via gambling today.		View
27 July 2021	0	25	Most people sinply do not understand stoicism.		View
3 April 2023	0	21	being offended by words is pretty juvenile the more i think about it. perhaps also a luxury of my own status and stoicism		View
11 October 2021	0	20	STOIC DON'T LET COMPLIMENTS GET TO YOUR HEAD AND DON'T TAKE COMPLAINTS TO HEART CULTIVATE TRUE OBJECTIVITY OF SELF. AND TRUE INDEPENDENCE PEOPLE WILL SACRIFICE TRUTH FOR TEMPORARY PEOPLE DON’T TAKE ANYTHING PERSONALLY. ESTABLISH AND TAKE CONTROL OVER YOUR OWN FRAME.		View
3 March 2020	0	18	if i die, i die. prepare for the worst, hope for the best. idk i think this is where my stoic training kicks in, i get bored quick		View
20 November 2020	0	18	most stoics are pussy soy boys. thinking being numb is a compensation for being stunted.		View
16 August 2018	0	13	havent really recouped my losses in terms of money it was alot im restricted in certain activities so to speak stoic mindset - the past is the past hit obstacles head on 6 months later, my work was being featured in magazines and i was making money		View
2 April 2020	0	12	she has dementia too and is blind. im pretty stoic, chances are she will die soon.		View
9 February 2019	0	11	@Libera_Rex Stoic response : " I am indifferent"		View
13 November 2020	0	9	sermon about stoicism and politics as a religion in my cult sermon		View
18 January 2018	0	5	since i started crypto, i have been keeping a diary a journal a stoic reference of events, and you would be surprised the number of times i have to write in there the amount of people that want to see it fail, i cant even put it in anymore		View
21 April 2018	0	5	@EvilRavinci dont rely on it tho difference between dreams vs goals yh man no point crying either, either it happens or it dont. dichotomy of control. - stoicism		View
3 March 2021	0	5	REVEALING A SECRET HERE, MIGHT GET ASSASSINATED THE STOIC AVI PLATITUDE GURUS, BUT WHEN U GRADUATE TO 10K, YOU GET A TWITTER PASSPORT		View
3 July 2018	0	4	its a tool. channel it, control it ! stoic temperance falters with applied anger, aggression and passion know when to apply the tool, when the environment and when the situation calls for it. what motivates me ? love and hate !		View
9 October 2018	0	4	imagine emotional vulnerability at the time of the holocaust your ideology has serious flaws. stoicism is personal growth, if i let my trauma get to me, id commit suicide or self medicate		View
26 November 2020	0	4	@BGZeroTwoOne @leoncastilloVC @vitabenes @DeeperThrill @Libera_Rex Grug eat meat. Grug is stoic. Buy my course.		View
17 January 2019	0	3	@Pseudoplotinus @MimeticValue the choice to live ethically is a aesthetic orientation is my argument. you find something of value(sublime) in the associated aesthetics of living ethically, personally im more stoic than epicurean. i find hedonism gets boring after a while lmao		View
4 March 2018	0	2	@roinoir I tried to explain notion of how happiness isnt or shouldn't be a goal with a dense tumblr girl on here. Ended up blocking her. In stoicism the goal is to live well.		View
31 March 2018	0	2	The Stoic idea that you are either virtuous or vicious - there being no middle ground.		View
27 April 2018	0	2	seeing some claim stoicism is only a mitigation of downsides not up but also success and material wealth, one must be cautious of how often have we seen hubris before the fall - corruption “To accept it without arrogance, to let it go with indifference.” - Marcus Aurelius		View
23 October 2018	0	2	Reply so good I gotta thread it True it also coincides with societal life cycles Born stoic. Die Epicurean		View
10 February 2019	0	2	@AmericanZabiha @BBennaghmouch @Libera_Rex stoic response : "my notifications are on mute brah"		View
23 January 2018	0	1	@selobound @0511_95 - what we were talking about, many girls just become the same one. shifting of hedonistic values to more work and goal orientation, eudaimonia and stoicism		View
24 January 2018	0	1	@Crypto_Destro @Crypto2U i think its the move away from hedonism and nihilism, both have made society worse off. stoicism and eudaimonia will improve society, itll encourage people to be more work and goal orientated etc		View
10 April 2018	0	1	@FlokiandRagnar it also made me see the world through history and how powerful tradition and evolution is . it made me more creative and more disciplined it made me more curious more knowledge hungry it made me satisfied with life constantly, stoic it made me conservative too funnily enough		View
17 April 2018	0	1	The embrace of cosmopolitanism (a word invented by Stoics, literally means world-city) made Stoicism the ideal philosophy for the Roman Empire, which brought an unprecedented range of races and religions into contact. Stoicism made sense for a globalized world--and it still does.		View
4 May 2018	0	1	imagine despising types of disgrace, a true stoic. to only be affected by what one chooses to be affected by. true self mastery		View
11 May 2018	0	1	@FlokiandRagnar Stoic texts first and foremost		View
21 May 2018	0	1	@Teniisliveo yeah i know, its a Sisyphean task see: the myth of sisyphus, good philosophical reading. yeah ofc, nothing has changed in me, just more stoic, and ambivalent with it, life goes on and such init		View
24 May 2018	0	1	"Bakhoum sees this interaction as a positive development, adding that the Chinese and Africans have similar attitudes towards work and family" say good bye to western nihilist(hedonist) degeneracy but then again nations are born stoic and die epicurean		View
16 June 2018	0	1	how stoicism will help indifferents coupled with hierarchy of indifferents preferred indifferents judged on their basis of good recieved see this thread for more on how to categorise externals and their good value		View
24 June 2018	0	1	to accept tribalism would according to the stoics in my opinion, be considered living within nature but still allowing for cosmopolitanism as you incentivise - pluralism more localised power dynamics. - allows more competition in governance and types of lifestyles.		View
26 June 2018	0	1	pluralism => cosmopolitanism => via empathy as explained by stoics cited couple tweets above		View
3 August 2018	0	1	@The_WGD Will Durant would agree. (civs start out stoic) some say its a similar reason why the economies of ancient civilisations fell as would sociologists(not pomo), in the end phase, it gets hedonist and dysgenic		View
4 September 2018	0	1	@prophoenixsophy @seunn99 altruism maybe or how stoic they are or outlook		View
9 October 2018	0	1	fractalisation of self consider stoic differentiation treating everyone the same also considered harmful why democracy falters as it scales. tribalism and human biology limitation		View
19 October 2018	0	1	@HRHFCharles How to stop. I'm.not sure personally I'm first principles and stoic. So hyper logic. Detached too		View
8 January 2019	0	1	@rfinz @visakanv personally i think its just one mental model, that should be used as a tool depending on the problem at hand, from your toolbox of mental models. if there is a disaster and people require me to lead, i will be a stoic leader, at a funeral or party or festival less so.		View
17 January 2019	0	1	@Pseudoplotinus @MimeticValue interesting, ive read fear and trembling. not familiar with either/or, seems contrary my currently held observations id retort, actually writing a paper on this, that the aesthetic "varies" to the person you can have a stoic "aesthetic" (orientation)		View
25 November 2019	0	1	@JimmyRis To say I don't care would be a stoic understatement		View
25 September 2020	0	1	@SpeakSoCalm @fistlosopher because you have to ? its of a stoic nature.		View
23 January 2018	0	0	i still have a problem with anger, idk how much stoicism can help me with this, or maybe i am not applying enough, this month i have threatened wayyyy too many people this month alone. one of my biggest problems in my life.		View
7 February 2018	0	0	@marcusjonno123 Its good, havent gotten too far, but i journal or atleast try to quite a bit, due to stoicism. so its not transformed life like that		View
8 February 2018	0	0	@mdpopescu @BretMaverick777 @mnrothbard Since we are bringing up individual cases. Ill bring up stoicism. The act within itself is good. How? You do not limit the utility of others given the choice. Ergo you dont act against virtue.		View
11 February 2018	0	0	@anarchistdaddy @metalqueersoIid Consumption essentially. Where as the other paths of the philosophy state pleasure is in fact on the scale of indifferents. Stoicism talks about this. Its like chasing the dragon. Long and meaningful existence comes from other aspects of life and interaction of things within it.		View
23 February 2018	0	0	@Noahpinion i do point that out earlier. same with the notion of god, religion and other delusions. however still unconvinced romantic love exists, emotion, philosophy, particularly the field of stoicism, says this detracts from the notion of first principles, emotion is a barrier.		View
10 April 2018	0	0	stoicism and 🅱️eterson thought		View
12 May 2018	0	0	@seunn99 yeah i say that in the thread, second tweet i think, stressing the importance for understanding religion from a memetic stand point i am a materialist, i dont believe in a soul look into stoic beliefs into cosmology or whatever they state, if there is or isnt, it doenst matter		View
12 May 2018	0	0	@seunn99 same i do it more to fit in and accrue trust. ppl are less likely to trust atheists funnily enough im more stoic in terms of caring		View
24 May 2018	0	0	@seunn99 never knew nero to be a stoic		View
31 May 2018	0	0	then again can one live religiously, without "believing" i think you can, stoicism is a mental based heuristic and other religions can be treated as such spirituality doesnt exist but looking at jordan peterson, one can live religiously without giving up rationality.		View
17 June 2018	0	0	@denimchicken21 yeah ahaha what can i say, shouldnt put too much emotional investment in people most would be better off learning stoicism. best to learn it as soon as possible.		View
22 June 2018	0	0	@MimeticValue 100% huge overlap with stoic practice too memento mori and via negativa (tmk) - imaging the worst, like losing everything, every morning links back to inner-outer tool mental model. in Buddhist practice is there any "rationale" as to why its good?		View
23 June 2018	0	0	@SupaMalaman you right but i dont know if it was specifically seneca or the stoics, of which i am a fan of but i think roman society in whole was very past focused on ancestor worship too		View
23 June 2018	0	0	this is a really good point maybe empathy was a wrong word but rather understanding. stems from stoic argument on empathy "’empathy’ is when you understand the feelings of another but do not necessarily share them" CITE:		View
6 July 2018	0	0	@10lettername I wouldn't consider a book about a niche obscure topic but rather one that has sweeping applicable knowledge a vast array of topics above are my reccomendations have read em both this year - easy reads for more mindset - something from the stoics		View
27 July 2018	0	0	Thought update : stoicism is merely a tool to be utilised, depending on the situation still hold same view on ubermensch and ability to construct ones own value system		View

History

GritCult first posted about Stoicism on 18 January 2018, and most recently on 10 August 2025. Across the archive the subject comes up 133 times, most often in 2018 (92 posts).

See also

The Doctrine portal

References

1. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (25 May 2021). Most people sinply do not understand stoicism. X.
2. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (27 February 2024). Some say it's being cold and stoic. They don't understand. But being in TOTAL control of your own mind. Is one of the greatest powers anyone can have... NO EMOTIONS = CLARITY. X.
3. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (31 August 2018). don't let compliments get to your head and don't take complaints to heart... cultivate true objectivity of self. and true independence. X.
4. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (30 October 2018). Meditation = thought detachment. Stoicism = constant detachment. Attachment is an illusion. X.
5. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (13 December 2022). If you think too much. You are not stoic. You are emotional. Too many thoughts are an emotional response. X.
6. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (13 January 2023). Stoics in Ancient Rome would purposely get bad haircuts and wear bad clothes. To test their resolve. To show they truly did not give a fuck about anything external to them. X.
7. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (23 August 2018). barbell strategy to life :... either really stoic or really epicurean... knowing how to balance this and when to use the tools in most optimal fashion. X.
8. ^GRITCULT [@GRITCULT] (18 December 2024). sometimes you gotta say fuck rationality, fuck stoicism and fuck logic... just let everything piss u the fuck off so u can feel that fire fuel inside of you. X.

Further reading

• Get Angry, My Son. A Manifesto, a manifesto by GritCult
• The Brutal Realism Manifesto, a manifesto by GritCult

External links

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• Stoicism on Wikipedia