Can Stoicism Make You Happier? | Donald Robertson
Modern Stoicism gets sold mostly as resilience and acceptance. But I wanted to ask the obvious follow-up: can it actually make life more joyful? Not just calmer, but richer in awe, laughter, the good ...
18 Jul 20229min
Donald Robertson Writes The World’s First Stoic Graphic Novel
Donald Robertson spent nearly three years making VERISSIMUS, a graphic novel about the life and philosophy of Marcus Aurelius. It might be the most ambitious philosophy project I have come across: his...
12 Jul 202258min
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 20225min
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 202210min
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 20226min
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 20225min
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 20227min
