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plato is one of the most famous

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philosophers

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of all time he represented the

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philosophy of ancient greece

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belonging to its classical period he was

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born into an aristocratic and

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influential family in athens where he

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founded the academy the first

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institution of higher learning in the

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entire western world

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along with his mentor socrates and his

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student aristotle

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plato is one of the most influential

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individuals in the entire history of

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humankind

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it can even be said that he is one of

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the pillars of western civilization

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his philosophy is often referenced as

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platonic idealism

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and his biggest contribution is the

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theory of forms or doctrine of ideas

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which asserts that the physical world is

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not the real world

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instead ultimate reality exists beyond

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our physical world

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in the world of ideas plato was not only

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a prominent figure of philosophy

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but also of religion and spirituality

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so-called neoplatonism deeply

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influencing christian theology

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plato invented the written dialogue and

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dialectic form of philosophy

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some of his most famous books are the

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republic

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the symposium the apology of socrates

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allegory of the cave and the dialogues

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of plato

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in which the main character is socrates

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who influenced plato's philosophy

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to a great extent his entire work

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has survived for more than 2 400 years

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and has remained very popular the entire

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time

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like his mentor plato was a practical

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philosopher

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and there are many life lessons to learn

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from his philosophy

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to help you understand his philosophy

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and how it can be applied to your daily

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here are nine life lessons from the

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philosophy

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of plato number one

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conquer yourself plato says

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the first and greatest victory is to

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conquer yourself

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to be conquered by yourself is of all

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things most

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shameful and vile plato believed that

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conquering yourself

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is the greatest victory having a deep

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impact in your life

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to conquer yourself means according to

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plato to not let your instincts and

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desires dictate your actions

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in his life plato has seen many

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athenians taking irrational decisions

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being driven by their passions and

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desires and not

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by good judgment one example is

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described in the dialogue between

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socrates and phaedras in which they talk

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about a man who murdered his wife's

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lover erathosthanes

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plato through socrates confirmed that

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life's greatest blessings flow from the

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madness of love

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the more we diminish our worst passions

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worldly passions and desires will blind

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making you take irrational decisions

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jeopardizing your future

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you might get temporary satisfaction by

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but you'll suffer in the long term

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before doing anything

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is beneficial to your life and to the

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lives of others you care about

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for example if you're a smoker and you

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know smoking is detrimental to your

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health in the long

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run but you can't quit it means you're

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not able to conquer yourself

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your impulses make you buy and smoke

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cigarettes every day

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you lost the battle over yourself and

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this is the most shameful and vile thing

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to regain control over your life to

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reconquer yourself

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you need to do everything you can to

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to buy new cigarettes there are many

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methods to give up smoking

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patches help take the edge off gradually

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whatever works for you make a plan and

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implement it in order to conquer

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number two being angry solves

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never be angry

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instead of getting angry and damaging

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by using reason you evaluate the problem

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and you can come closer to the truth of

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that situation

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there are two types of problems in life

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and those which you can't regarding the

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problems you can solve

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there's nothing to get angry about just

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make a plan to find the solution

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implement it and go with it if the

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problem cannot be solved

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then the only thing you can do is to

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and adjust your life accordingly for

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if you have a small business and you

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find out that your accountant has stolen

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a lot of money from you

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is there a way i can solve this problem

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you might come up with the idea that you

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get him arrested and have him face a

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but if you don't have enough written

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evidence to prove the accountant stole

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you're left with just one

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option to fire him never talk to him

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problem and you've exhausted

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every possible solution don't waste time

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number three choose the people you spend

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wisely to quote plato

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people are like dirt they can either

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nourish you and help you grow as a

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or they can stunt your growth and make

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spending his life in the public arena

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being born into an aristocratic and

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influential family descending from the

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codrus plato was a popular individual

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he rightly understood the tremendous

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other people can have on us a bad

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alliance can destroy your life

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greatest peaks of success

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important as the skill of choosing the

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you meet the same people over and over

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being in a long-term relationship one

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can feel pressured to stick around

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even when they mistreat and don't

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relatives yet for many of us it's a

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given that you have a duty to keep in

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touch with them and visit them

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at least during the holidays but you

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it is in your power to leave a job where

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you don't like the people or culture

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you can almost always find a better job

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equally it might be daunting but your

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partner doesn't own you

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relatives with whom you don't have

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attractive and loved

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respected and loved number four

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half that matches him

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to complete them thus plato was the

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to discuss the concept of a soulmate

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aristophanes who is known as the father

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of comedy in his speech from plato's

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that they never want to be separated

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from them ever again

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to apply this teaching in our own lives

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we should never stop searching for our

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soulmate

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until we feel that we found somebody

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from whom we never want to be separated

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again

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and we don't feel any desire to be

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unfaithful to

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as a checklist you can use the following

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they're your best friend you have a

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sense of calm and

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ease around them you feel at home when

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you're together

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you have extreme empathy and respect for

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them

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you agree on the most important things

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you share

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similar life goals and you can be

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totally yourself in their presence

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you just want to be around each other if

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they check

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all these boxes chances are

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you've found your soulmate number five

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get involved in politics

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plato notes one of the penalties for

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refusing to participate

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in politics is that you end up being

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governed by your inferiors

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although athens was the first democracy

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in the world

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plato never liked democracy when

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socrates died after being imprisoned for

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corrupting the youth of athens with his

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philosophical wisdom

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plato was deeply saddened concluding

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that democracy is

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antithetical to philosophy plato

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described his distaste for democracy

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with this analogy

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imagine a ship where the owner is the

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strongest man on the ship

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but doesn't know how to sail there are

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other sailors on board

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but they're quarreling with each other

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without coming to a conclusion

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and then there's a navigator who knows

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the direction but doesn't have any

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desire for leadership

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in plato's metaphor the owner is a

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common citizen

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the strongest the most powerful but

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ultimately clueless

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sailors are the politicians who keep

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quarreling without coming to any

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conclusion

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and the navigator is the philosopher the

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most

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knowledgeable person but has no will to

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take control of the situation

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he identified that the real problem with

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democracy

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is that it gives equal chances to people

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who are not equal in skills and

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knowledge

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and thus produces poor leaders who make

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poor decisions that can destroy the

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state

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it was of the opinion that society

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should be composed of three groups

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first the plebs the most inferior then

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the

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soldiers to keep the society under

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control and then

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the rulers who should always be

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philosophers

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the lower classes should have no say

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whatsoever in how the state was to run

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and whether the philosophers the most

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knowledgeable people at that time

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should become the rulers although

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athenian democracy is different from

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modern democracy

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plato's criticism of democracy remains

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relevant even today

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especially regarding the fact that in a

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democracy the opinion of a less informed

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and less educated person

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weighs the same as the opinion of a

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highly educated and informed person

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if the educated and informed don't get

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involved in politics

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then the political roles will be taken

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up by the remaining populace

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and that can ruin a country so if you

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have the reputation of a good citizen

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and you have many years of professional

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experience proving over those years that

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you're a good leader

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and capable of managing complex projects

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you might consider running for mayor or

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the equivalent in your community

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be it a small town or bigger city

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having achieved several accomplishments

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in your life and knowing yourself as a

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capable person

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you should consider that it's your

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responsibility to join the area of

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politics

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don't refrain from public life otherwise

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you increase the chances of being

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governed by people less capable than you

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but more popular democracy offers great

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opportunities for each of us

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but it has its flaws in order to avoid

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important roles being filled by the less

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capable of us

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the most capable should step up try to

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be more popular

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and take the responsibility of a

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governing position

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number six learn to be a follower

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then a master plato tells us

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he who is not a good servant will not be

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a good master as a teacher in charge of

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conducting the prestigious school he

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himself founded

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the academy plato knew that to be a

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great teacher

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you first need to be a great student

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something that applies to any job to

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reach a managerial position

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first you need to be highly experienced

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at the job you plan to manage

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leadership roles are usually earned

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through hard work and dedication

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people must first proof their skills

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demonstrate their knowledge before

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they're put in charge of other staff

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of course in the modern world there are

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many exceptions where managerial

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positions are awarded

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without the appropriate skill set or

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experience

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but in an egalitarian less corrupted

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society

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it's through hard work and dedication

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that one gets a leadership

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position for example if you work in an

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industrial company as a general worker

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you can acquire a leadership position

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if you prove every day that you're very

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reliable

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can work autonomously always fulfill

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your obligations

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you're polite but tough in your work and

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you keep yourself and your colleagues

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accountable

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if this describes you an occasion may

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well arise for a promotion

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for example your manager leaving the

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company or changing roles

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your employers might select you if

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you've proven to be the best follower

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thus to be a master one must learn to be

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a great

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follower number seven

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be content with little nato teaches us

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the greatest wealth is to live content

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with little

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according to plato if you have a roof

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over your head

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food in your mouth and you can walk to

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work you're wealthy enough

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any excess of these will not make you

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happier

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too often we're chasing the material

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things in life

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but these things will not make us

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happier plato was a wealthy individual

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but he understood that it's not the

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richness that made him happy

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sometimes only when you're rich do you

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really understand that money doesn't

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bring lasting happiness

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being happy with little will assure you

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happiness

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therefore it's very important to

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cultivate gratitude

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to bless everything we have in our lives

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no matter how

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insignificant it may appear for example

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if you live in a studio in a poor

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neighborhood be content that you have

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shelter

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be grateful for the bed you sleep in for

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the window through which you see the

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morning sun

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be happy to live in a neighborhood where

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you can find anything you need

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the supermarket the pharmacy and so on

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don't be resentful of people with a lot

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of money living in expensive villas and

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having expensive cars

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their wealth is only apparent it's

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impossible to know

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how happy they really are they might

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have vast debts and financial

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commitments

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a miserable family life or suffer from

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drug abuse

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you with your little happy family living

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in a tiny house

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and using the subway to go to work might

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actually be

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much happier than those seemingly

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wealthier people

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as long as you learn to be grateful for

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every little thing and you have shelter

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enough food and you're able to walk and

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work

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your happiness is assured you have

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enough wealth

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in your life number eight

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be in charge of your own happiness

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as we learn from plato the man who makes

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everything that leads to happiness

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depend upon himself

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and not upon other men has adopted

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the very best plan for living happily

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plato was not a hedonist he didn't

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believe that the pursuit of pleasure is

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the most important thing in life

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rather he was interested in knowing the

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true essence of reality

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emphasizing the importance of wisdom

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moderation

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and hard work however he acknowledged

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the importance of living a happy life

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which he thought is a life lived in

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moderation and in which your happiness

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does not depend on

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other people but on yourself if you make

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your life depend on somebody or

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something else for example

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you say to yourself i'll be happy when i

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marry this or that person or

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i'll be happy when i get rich and famous

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then you're dooming yourself to live an

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anxious life in which you'll always be

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afraid of losing the person you love

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or not attaining the material success

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you wish for

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if by contrast you construct your

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happiness based on a set of routines

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which

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makes you happy on a daily basis you

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won't experience the extreme ups and

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downs of life

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you'll have a peaceful and much happier

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life than other people on average

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to apply this teaching to your life make

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a list of every activity which makes you

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happy

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for example walking in the park with

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your dog or

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going hiking in nature close to where

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you live listening to music while

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cleaning the house

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going to a museum reading great books

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every day and so on

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after making this list make sure you

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check each activity

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every week making your happiness

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independent of what happens in your

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personal relationships or

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in your career will secure a safety net

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for your emotional well-being

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and will help you avoid having too many

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low moments

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in your life number nine

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work hard to accomplish great things

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in our final quote from plato for this

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video he says

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i never did anything worth doing by

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accident

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nor did any of my inventions come by

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accident

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they came by work

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although he was a promoter of living a

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simple life and being content with

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little

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during his lifetime plato was a

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hard-working individual

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he believed that it's important to

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contribute to society as much as you can

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as long as your work is not motivated by

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ambition for ambition's sake

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during his lifetime plato accomplished a

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great number of things

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he was the innovator of written dialogue

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and dialectic forms in philosophy

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and he's considered the founder of

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western political philosophy

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being one of the most famous thinkers in

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the entire history of humankind

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it would have been impossible for him to

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achieve all of this without working hard

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usually nothing worth doing can be done

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easily

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you can't get a great sense of

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accomplishment by doing trivial things

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like binge watching tv

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endlessly scrolling through social media

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or partying with your friends

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the things you're proud of the things

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that are worth doing

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those take plenty of planning and no

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small amount of effort

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to apply plato's lesson in our lives we

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need to focus more on challenging

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projects

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and work hard to accomplish great things

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with these projects

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for example imagine you have a stable

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job as a delivery driver but you find it

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repetitive

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monotonous and unfulfilling in order to

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feel some satisfaction in your life

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you might decide to start a new project

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for example

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learning a new skill or language by

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signing up for online classes

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or joining a community group such as a

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theater company or choir

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all of which can open you up to new

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opportunities and ideas you'd never

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considered before

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hard work when doubled by great planning

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will lead to great rewards

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and satisfaction

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if you enjoyed this video please do make

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sure to check out our full philosophies

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