Socrates' Baby This is an invented story about Socrates nonetheless conveying a likely lesson. Socrates was one of the greatest thinkers about life’s particularities and ironies, coining the phrase “the unexamined life is not worth living.” It is very likely that, through sheer philosophy, he got access to modern psychological knowledge even before psychology was established. #socrates #philosophy #philosophyquotes #quotes #philosophyquote #stoicism #plato #stoic
Avatar of thinkinbros

thinkinbros

2024-04-27 15:15:21

socrates was once seen observing a baby by his student
why are you looking at this infant master he asked
for two reasons said socrates
first the baby can already move by crawling
yet it wants to learn a harder skill walking
second
every time the baby falls he shows no sign of discouragement
he instead gets back up and tries again
as it grows up however it will learn to be embarrassed and discouraged by failure
it is a great irony that we were born with the innate ability to face failure stoically
yet we spend our entire lives learning to do so
that's why