The 6-Step Mental Checklist Before You Do Anything
We make most decisions on autopilot and only notice afterwards that we reacted instead of chose. This episode lays out a six-step mental checklist you can run before you act, so you meet a situation w...
9 Okt 20238min
Set Stoic Internal Goals: Focus On What You Control
If you set your goal as winning, you have handed your peace of mind to other people and to luck. Epictetus had a fix for this, and it is the heart of Chapter 19 of his Enchiridion: aim at things that ...
4 Okt 202311min
Stoic Meditation To Calm Your Mind Before You Act
Nerves and overthinking often arrive just before you need to act. This short guided meditation uses a few Stoic ideas to settle the mind: what is in your hands, what is outside them, and what the next...
24 Sep 20239min
Healing Versus Awakening | Zen Teacher Henry Shukman
Henry Shukman is a Zen teacher and meditation instructor who has woven together meditative practice, psychotherapy and plant medicine on his own road from eczema, anxiety and despair toward something ...
17 Sep 20231h 4min
How To Use Bad Luck Without Pretending It Is Good
A bad weather forecast, a worrying noise from the car, a small omen that something is about to go wrong. These little signals can sour a whole day if you let them. This episode is about a Stoic move f...
12 Sep 20237min
How To Make Better Trade-Offs When Time Is Tight
Becoming a parent stripped my time down to almost nothing, and it turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to my focus. This episode is about what I learned from Greg McKeown's "Essentialism...
4 Sep 202311min
Is Your Need for Approval Causing Anxiety? A Talk with Dr. Aziz
A lot of anxiety hides behind being nice. Dr. Aziz Gazipura has a PhD in clinical psychology and spends his time helping people build social confidence, and his work named something I had felt for yea...
27 Aug 202345min
Embracing Fate: Nietzsche's Answer to the Victim Mentality
You can be a genuine victim of something terrible and still refuse to live as a victim. That distinction is the whole episode. As I put it in the conversation, "the victim mindset is not just disempow...
13 Aug 202331min
