The Stoic Handbook with Jon Brooks

One of the prompts in my morning writing is simple: what three things will make up my power hour? It is the question that decides whether a day actually moves forward. In this short one I explain what...

24 Feb 20219min

Have you ever had a moment that made it suddenly obvious how much of what you worry about does not matter? For me it was the instant my son was born. The view from above is a way to reach for that cla...

6 Nov 202010min

Each night, once the house had gone quiet, Seneca would go back over his whole day, what he had done and said, hiding nothing from himself. This guided meditation is built on that practice. It follows...

29 Okt 20209min

This is a Stoic contemplation to settle into each morning before the day gets hold of you. It draws on Marcus Aurelius and his practice of premeditation of adversity, the habit of reminding yourself, ...

22 Okt 202014min

Someone pointed me to a Tucker Max tweet calling Stoicism a dead philosophy, backed by a study suggesting that a naive endorsement of Stoic ideology might actually be bad for wellbeing. It is a seriou...

17 Okt 202027min

In this guided meditation you will imagine an apocalyptic scene, the end of the world, as a way of bringing your most important values sharply into focus. It draws on the Stoic practice of premeditati...

8 Okt 202012min

Seneca used the image of a fighter to make his point about hardship. The boxer who has never been hit cannot enter the ring with real confidence. The one who can is the one who has seen his own blood,...

24 Sep 202010min

In Chapter 4 of the Enchiridion, Epictetus lays out a simple three-step way of making plans, one that keeps you steady whether things go your way or not. This guided exercise walks you through it. Lik...

17 Sep 202010min