The Path of the Spiritual Warrior
The spiritual warrior is someone who treats every hardship as training rather than punishment. In this short clip I unpack that idea and how the Stoics turned adversity into an advantage instead of so...
1 Jul 20226min
James Stockdale and the Power of Realistic Optimism
James Stockdale spent over seven years as a prisoner of war and credited Stoicism with getting him through. What he noticed there became the Stockdale Paradox: the people who broke first were the opti...
24 Jun 202211min
The Stoic Reframe to Deal with Loss of Any Kind
The Stoics had a hard but freeing way of thinking about loss. Nothing is really yours. Everything you enjoy is on loan, and grief hurts less when you stop treating what was taken as something you owne...
11 Jun 20227min
How Stoicism Helped Me Stop Fighting Anxiety
I spent years trying different ways to get rid of anxiety. Stoicism and cognitive behavioural therapy gave me a better question: what happens if I stop treating every anxious feeling as a problem that...
20 Mai 20221h 17min
Hard Challenges Unlock Inner Superpowers
The Stoic claim here is bold: whatever lands in front of you, you already hold the inner resource to meet it. Tempted? You also carry self-restraint. The more you practise, the more you trust that no ...
17 Mai 20226min
Epictetus On Pain: What The Mind Adds
The Stoics drew a sharp line between what happens to the body and what the mind does with it. Pain is real. But the suffering on top of it, the part that says this should not be happening, is somethin...
5 Mai 20228min
Stoic Acceptance Contemplation to Reduce Anxiety Over an Uncertain Future
Most of our anxiety about the future is really resistance to the fact that we cannot control it. This guided contemplation works on accepting events as they are rather than fighting the way things unf...
30 Apr 20226min
How to Let Go of Things You Love
How do you enjoy something fully while staying ready to lose it? Epictetus answers with one of his best images, the sailor who goes ashore to gather shells and water but keeps an ear out for the capta...
22 Apr 20224min
