Amor Fati
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If you are sure you are right, you need not worry what the world thinks.
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If you are ever to achieve noteworthy success in your life, you must be willing to stand apart from the crowd. Success is something that is achieved by the minority, not the majority, of people. You will also discover as you climb the ladder of success that there are many who, out of jealousy or envy, will belittle your achievements. Nevertheless, if you have the courage of your convictions, nothing can deter you from your own course. You develop confidence in your beliefs by doing your own thinking and by constantly testing and revising your knowledge. Use W. Clement Stone’s R2A2 Principle to Recognize and Relate, Assimilate and Apply information from any field to help solve your problems and direct your thinking.
Napolean Hill Archives
“Travel makes one modest: one sees what a tiny place one occupies in the world.”
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880)
The most influential French novelist of the nineteenth century, Flaubert is remembered primarily for the stylistic precision and dispassionate rendering of psychological detail found in his masterpiece, Madame Bovary (1857). Although his strict objectivity is often associated with the realist and naturalist movements, he objected to this classification, and his artistry indeed defies such easy categorization. Flaubert struggled throughout his career to overcome a romantic tendency toward lyricism, fantastic imaginings, and love of the exotic past. A meticulous craftsman, he aimed to achieve a prose style “as rhythmical as verse and as precise as the language of science.”
("Gustave Flaubert." Gale Online Encyclopedia, Gale, 2021).
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Gustave-Flaubert
A good study of this matter, pics and clips noted in comments from the article, may they help you as you learn and develop this perspective in your life TLR, Amor Fati
Friedrich Nietzsche
“My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendacity in the face of what is necessary—but love it.”
Final Reminder
As the old saying goes, this too shall pass. Learning to love the difficult times gives us even more of life to love. If we wish time to move faster just to get past our challenges then we’re wishing away time that we’ll never get back. Time we could have loved.
Amor Fati
Remember, when things are going bad, there is always a way to create some good from it. To progress from accepting our Fate to loving it, we can choose to view the troubles that befall us as challenges. Challenges show us what we are capable of. In this way, we might even look forward to difficult situations.
https://youtu.be/PSVYo7xpIOI?si=YXbcVvg56G39-pgx
Loving our fate is of course harder when the event we’re faced with is an undesirable one, so let’s focus on that. We might receive bad news, we might make a mistake at work, we might upset someone unintentionally, we might get injured, the list is endless. That’s Fate, that’s life.
If we prepare our own amor fati-inspired response to these situations ahead of time, we won’t be caught off-guard when they occur.
Seneca, in his Moral Letter 78, recommended the expectation of future troubles as a means of making our acceptance and love of Fate easier:
“Hold fast to this thought, and grip it close: yield not to adversity; trust not to prosperity; keep before your eyes the full scope of Fortune’s power, as if she would surely do whatever is in her power to do. That which has been long expected comes more gently.”
Meditations (4.23), Marcus Aurelius also conveyed his willingness to accept what Fate has to offer:
“Universe, whatever is consonant with you is consonant with me; if something is timely for you, it’s neither too early nor too late for me. Nature, everything is fruit to me that your seasons bring; everything comes from you, everything is contained in you, everything returns to you.”
Epictetus summarized it well in Chapter 8 of his Enchiridion:
“Do not seek for things to happen the way you want them to; rather, wish that what happens happen the way it happens: then you will be happy.”
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