Stoicism is Preparation For the Worst Day of Your Life
A tragedy happened close to home recently, and it knocked me sideways. This episode is me thinking out loud about death, life, and gratitude in the middle of that, and about the uncomfortable truth th...
9 Maalis 20228min
How To Turn Stoicism Into A Practice You Can Measure
Most people have heard of Stoicism. Far fewer have met an actual Stoic, someone as calm and self-disciplined as the people who wrote the books. That gap is what set me off ten years ago. I learn throu...
17 Helmi 20221h 40min
Epictetus on Foolish Bragging vs. Wise Pride
Epictetus drew a sharp line between two things that feel almost identical from the inside: bragging about what you happen to have, and taking pride in who you have become. One is fragile, the other is...
12 Helmi 20225min
11 Stoic Strategies to Conquer Fear
Seneca wrote about fear more honestly than almost anyone. He knew it from the inside, the dread that arrives before the thing you dread ever does. In this one I go through eleven of his lines on fear ...
11 Tammi 202225min
The Art of Stoic Reading
Reading the Stoics and being changed by them are two different things. You can finish Meditations and carry nothing into Tuesday morning. A listener, Mike Slavin, asked how I actually fold ancient Sto...
1 Tammi 20226min
Is Anxiety Ever Useful? Donald Robertson On Derren Brown
The Stoics can sound as if they want you to feel nothing. Donald Robertson, who has spent his career bridging Stoicism and modern therapy, takes that head on in this conversation. We talk through the ...
16 Joulu 202113min
A Stoic Wake-Up Call For Procrastination
This guided reflection is meant to make you slightly uncomfortable. You will sit with the questions procrastination helps you avoid: Am I using my time well? Am I making excuses and calling them reaso...
10 Joulu 202118min
Stoic Insult Training: Practise Staying Calm Under Verbal Attack
An insult only stings if you let it through. The Stoics had specific methods for taking the heat out of it, and in this one we do not just discuss them, we drill them. I walk through how the ancients ...
2 Joulu 20218min
