Your Bonus Life Begins Now
This episode explores gratitude as a Stoic practice, emphasizing the transformative power of attention. By imagining what we might have already lost—or even our own death—we can reawaken appreciation ...
17 Jun 7min
Live Like a Philosopher
This episode returns philosophy to its ancient meaning: not something merely studied, but something lived. Pierre Hadot shows that figures like Marcus Aurelius practiced philosophy through daily self-...
10 Jun 7min
Your Attention Is Your Life
This episode examines the attention we surrender to screens, busyness, and distraction.Eric Pickersgill’s phone-free photographs reveal how strange our habits can look when the device disappears, whil...
3 Jun 7min
You’ve Survived More Than You Think
This episode reflects on the quiet evidence of resilience we carry with us: the fact that we have survived every difficult moment that once seemed unbearable. Seneca’s image of the scar reminds us tha...
27 Mai 7min
The Only Thing You Need to Be
This episode explores Stoicism as a love of wisdom and a daily practice of character.By understanding virtue as human excellence—thinking clearly, acting justly, facing difficulty bravely, and resisti...
20 Mai 7min
How to Stop Missing Your Life
This episode turns Seneca’s call to “hold every hour in our grasp” into something more concrete.Through Montaigne’s habits of writing and walking, and Matt Haig’s reflections on acceptance, we look at...
13 Mai 5min
The Stoic Case Against Anger
This episode examines anger through the lens of Seneca and Epictetus.Seneca warns that anger harms us first, clouding reason and undermining self-control, while Epictetus reframes wrongdoing as error ...
6 Mai 5min
You Don’t Have to Form an Opinion
This episode explores how much of our distress comes not from events themselves, but from the interpretations we layer on top of them. Marcus Aurelius reminds us that opinions are optional, while Epic...
29 Apr 6min
