Victor Pierentoni owner of Zen Stoic Mastery helps people create mental wellness and vitality in their personal and professional life. Victor has worked in the personal development industry for the last several years and has coached thousands of people. Victor talks with your host Blake Bowman about stoicism and Zen philosophy.
Episode Highlights:
- How Victor defines Zen Stoicism.
- How Victor defines Zen by itself and Stoicism by itself.
- Victor began studying the Stoics by reading The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday
- Stoicism was giving Victor’s clients better and more dramatic results.
- The type of coaching that Victor provides to his clients - mostly psychology and some strategy.
- The benefits of practicing the Zen Stoic program and what happens if you don’t.
- The opposite of stoicism is acting on impulse only.
- A lot of great leaders think of things logically instead of emotionally.
- Remember that nothing is personal.
- You can’t control what’s happening in the world around you, you can control how you respond.
- Stoicism is not just living in the moment it’s the acknowledgment of a potential future.
- How stress eating is a coping mechanism for some kind of pain.
- What are the tangible benefits of stoicism:
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- A better sense of inner peace.
- Voluntary discomfort allows you to handle harder things.
- Being more considerate of others.
- You’ll be more resilient and more comfortable with unexpected or negative things.
- Extremism is blindly following a narrative for the sake of having that narrative.
- Some steps people can take toward stoicism:
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- Cold showers.
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- Ask yourself what is a fact, and what is an opinion - you only suffer from opinions, not facts.
- Put yourself into any other kind of voluntary discomfort.
- Journal and reflect on your day.
- Where people can connect with Victor:
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- Zen Stoic Mastery Facebook Page
- The Zen Stoic Podcast
- The Zen Stoic Dojo Facebook Group
3 Key Points:
- You have to focus on what you can control and not be controlled by your emotions.
- Protecting yourself from your own emotions could contribute to your overall health in a radical way.
- Challenging yourself with voluntary discomfort can push you toward stoicism.
Tweetable Quotes:
- “In order to have full health, vitality, and longevity you have to have the mindset right.” -Blake
- “The Zen Stoic philosophy is better in action than in conversation” -Victor
- “It’s very difficult to be healthy when you’re constantly in an angry state.” -Victor
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