What Deserves Your Attention | William James and the Stoics
You can end a busy day having focused intensely on things you would never have chosen as the center of your life. The messages were answered. The small dispute got another hour. The person you meant t...
12 Loka 3min
Remember Death. Return to Life. | Dying Every Day
Memento mori is a way to bring the important things back into the present. Through Montaigne and Seneca, this episode explores how remembering mortality can loosen our attachment to approval, interrup...
8 Loka 6min
The Story Your Mind Adds | Dying Daily
A message arrives with fewer words than you expected. You read it again. The brevity begins to sound like irritation; the irritation becomes a judgment about your relationship. By the time you put the...
5 Loka 3min
Day 158: You Will Never Know Enough: Socrates and Epictetus on Acting Without Certainty
📮 Want more meditations for mortals? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 158.You’ve read the advice. You’ve asked the people you trust. ...
1 Loka 16min
The Life You Are Actually Living | Dying Daily
📮 Want more meditations for mortals? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Daying Daily.You have been avoiding this thought.Not consciously. N...
28 Syys 4min
Can Self-Discipline Be Trained? | Mortal Questions
📮 Check out my new course, Resist and Persist: https://perennial.substack.com/p/introducing-resist-and-persistWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Mortal Questions.I want to try something new her...
24 Syys 14min
Day 157: Carrying the Fire with Shane Trotter | Dying Every Day
📮 Want more meditations for mortals? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Day 157.What does it take to become strong enough to carry responsi...
17 Syys 46min
"Let us Postpone Nothing" | Dying Daily
📮 Want more meditations for mortals? Sign up here: https://perennial.substack.com/subscribeWelcome back to Dying Every Day. This is Daying Daily.You have been avoiding this thought.Not consciously. N...
15 Syys 4min
