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How To Have The Right Kind Of Friends
“We forget that, although freedom of speech constitutes an important victory in the battle against old restraints, modern man is in a position where much of what “he” thinks and says are the things that everybody else thinks and says; that he has not acquired the ability to think originally — that is, for himself — which alone gives meaning to his claim that nobody can interfere with the expression of his thoughts.”
― Erich Fromm
Express yourself, totally and uninhibitedly.
Because if you don’t, how else is the people that you meet throughout your life find out if you are the right fit for them?
Too many times, we find ourselves molding to other people. Saying the things they want to hear and acting in weird ways that we believe are going to get us liked.
That is wrong.
The first thing that is wrong about this predicament is trying to be liked so much. That is a disease that is eating your creative instinct alive. Putting it in the basement and shutting the door. Don’t put it in the basement.
Stoicism is the art of living. In order for art to be art, it needs to be unique, it needs to express something that has never been expressed before. Epictetus said that freedom is the only worthy goal in life. There cannot be art without freedom, you need to clean…
