Concentrate like a Roman
Today I want to reflect on the following quote from The Meditations:
Concentrate every minute like a Roman—like a man—on doing what's in front of you with precise and genuine seriousness, tenderly, willingly, with justice. And on freeing yourself from all other distractions. Yes, you can—if you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable. You see how few things you have to do to live a satisfying and reverent life? If you can manage this, that's all even the gods can ask of you.
Whenever life gets crazy I remember this passage. Thinking constantly about the future can become overwhelming. I have to remember that the future doesn't exist. That all I need to do is come back to the present and work on one thing at a time, tenderly, willingly.
Articles
Personal notes I've written over the years.
- When does the Binomial become approximately Normal
- Gambler's ruin problem
- The t-distribution becomes Normal as n increases
- Marcus Aurelius on death
- Proof of the Central Limit Theorem
- Proof of the Strong Law of Large Numbers
- Deriving Multiple Linear Regression
- Safety stock formula derivation
- Derivation of the Normal Distribution
- Comparing means of Normal populations
- Concentrate like a Roman
- How to read a Regression summary in R
- Notes on Expected Value
- How to read an ANOVA summary in R
- The time I lost faith in Expected Value
- Notes on Weighted Linear Regression
- How information can update Conditional Probability
- Coupon collecting singeltons with equal probability
- Coupon collecting with n pulls and different probabilities
- Coupon collecting with different probabilities
- Coupon collecting with equal probability
- Adding Independent Normals Is Normal
- The value of fame during and after life
- Notes on the Beta Distribution
- Notes on the Gamma distribution
- Notes on Conditioning
- Notes on Independence
- A part of society
- Conditional Expectation and Prediction
- Notes on Covariance
- Deriving Simple Linear Regression
- Nature of the body
- Set Theory Basics
- Polynomial Regression
- The Negative Hyper Geometric RV
- Notes on the MVN
- Deriving the Cauchy density function
- Exponential and Geometric relationship
- Joint Distribution of Functions of RVs
- Order Statistics
- The Sample Mean and Sample Variance
- Probability that one RV is greater than another
- St Petersburg Paradox
- Drunk guy by a cliff
- The things that happen to us