Stoic exercises: Life Hacks or practicing Philosophy?

Dear friends of Stoicism,
I want to invite you to another event, where we can discuss our favorite philosophy.
Could it be that it's required to buy into the whole philosophy in order for the exercises to show any results? Do we have to understand the theory of Stoicism before we can expect to practice it correctly?
Next Thursday we want to share our favorite Stoic exercises (if we have any), and discuss, if this is enough to be a proper Stoic.

This might be the last time we announce an event on this platform. But that doesn't mean, we're stop organizing events. In case you missed it, here the announcements from our main organizer of the last years, Daniya:
"Dear all, You may be wondering why our lovely meetup group has been so quiet lately. There are two reasons for this. First, the current co-organizer Daniya was organizing meetups for a small, closed group for about 1.5 years, before other responsibilities started to demand more of her time. As for the other co-organizers Cay-Eric, Rachel and Patrick, they are also currently committed to other matters. We are very much looking forward to hosting future events once everyone has more time to dedicate to learning about Stoicism together. If you would like to become a co-organizer and host some events, please don’t hesitate to contact us — this would be very welcome!
We have decided to move to a free platform for the time being. Huge thanks to Steve for starting this group during Covid, and thank you for joining and being part of it. To keep the group alive, we are moving to Facebook for now. Future events will be hosted through Facebook or announced via other platforms.

1. Please find the link to the new Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/897182939873217
2. Subscribe to our newsletter so we can stay in touch with you: https://stoa-berlin.mailchimpsites.com

Hope to see you in the other group and at the future events!"

I'm looking forward to another interesting evening at our "regular" meeting location "Mars".

See you there! :-)
Cay-Eric