Jonas Salzgeber
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It teaches you to care about your own behaviour and reactions and nothing else, because those are the only things in your power. Everything else is not, so you shouldn't try to control them or be upset about them, just let them go. Easier said than done of course. But aspire to be the best version of yourself is just the perfect motto together with the attitude described above.
However, I don't think I would ever want to achieve that level of detachment where I'm not horribly shaken by the death of loved ones. It just doesn't seem healthy to me. Also, contemplating my own death and the impermanence of things won't make me calm, they freak the hell out of me, so I'll just skip those, too.
Right. The thing is, repetition never bothered me in so-called 'American style' nonfiction. I do realize it is a teaching technique that helps the material to stick. So you have to paraphrase it. Say it in other words. Again and again. But only so many times and not more. „Three shalt be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, nor either count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out.” You know the quote. For reading everything twelve times is just exhausting. After nine or ten times, it just becomes counterproductive. All right, after three or four occurences. Repeating it over and over again is just making the reader feel as if s/he's treated as a moron. Consider this paragraph. I think all of you understood what I was trying to convey in the first few sentences. Sooo what's the use of all this other stuff? (Other than that meme where can't is inflated to a six-line paragraph for a thesis.) Repetition is fine with me. A couple times. But then: enough is enough. Like, why should we still want to say the exact same message in yet another string of words? And one last time?
And now I shall check out those books by Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus sitting on my shelf, recommended so many times and still waiting to be read.… (lisätietoja)