Kate Bowler on Memento Mori and Falling in Love with Fate | This Decision—This Process—Will Change Your Life
The Daily Stoic6 Okt 2021

Kate Bowler on Memento Mori and Falling in Love with Fate | This Decision—This Process—Will Change Your Life

Ryan reads today’s meditation and talks to author and professor Kate Bowler about her recent book Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved, her battle after being unexpectedly diagnosed with Stage IV cancer, the similarities between hope and fear, the importance of stillness, how the prospect of death concentrates the mind, and more.

Kate Bowler, PhD is a New York Times bestselling author, podcast host, and a professor at Duke University. She studies the cultural stories we tell ourselves about success, suffering, and whether (or not) we’re capable of change. Blessed: A History of the American Prosperity Gospel, which received widespread media attention and a lot of puns about being #blessed.

Ten Thousand makes the highest quality, best-fitting, and most comfortable training shorts I have ever worn. They are a direct-to-consumer company, no middleman so you get premium fabrics, trims, and techniques that other brands simply cannot afford. Ten Thousand is offering our listeners 15% off your purchase. go to Tenthousand.cc and enter code STOIC to receive 15% off your purchase.

KiwiCo believes in the power of kids and that small lessons today can mean big, world-changing ideas tomorrow. KiwiCo is a subscription service that delivers everything your kids will need to make, create and play. Get 30% off your first month plus FREE shipping on ANY crate line with code STOIC at kiwico.com.

LinkedIn Jobs is the best platform for finding the right candidate to join your business this fall. It’s the largest marketplace for job seekers in the world, and it has great search features so that you can find candidates with any hard or soft skills that you need. And now, you can post a job for free. Just visit linkedin.com/STOIC to post a job for free.

Novo is the #1 Business Banking App - because it’s built from the ground up to be powerfully simple and free business banking that Money Magazine called the Best Business Checking Account of 2021. Novo makes banking easy and secure - you can manage your account in Novo’s customizable web, android, and iOS apps with built in profit first accounting and invoicing. Get your FREE business banking account in just 10 minutes at https://banknovo.com/STOIC

Sign up for the Daily Stoic email: https://DailyStoic.com/signup

Follow us: Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, TikTok, Facebook

Follow Kate Bowler: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Homepage

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Avsnitt(2873)

Don’t Be A Snob

Don’t Be A Snob

Because of the work we’ve done. Because of the study. Because of the experiences. We know. We know what’s right. We know what’s possible. We know how things should go.The problem, as we’ve said before...

27 Sep 20233min

You Should Ask Yourself This Question When You Mess Up | 9 Stoic Keys To Building Character That Lasts

You Should Ask Yourself This Question When You Mess Up | 9 Stoic Keys To Building Character That Lasts

Look, we all mess up. We take certain people or clients for granted and a relationship deteriorates. We get distracted and make an unnecessary mistake. We are overwhelmed by a passion or a temper and ...

26 Sep 202310min

You Either Are Or You Aren’t | Panic Is Self-Inflicted Harm

You Either Are Or You Aren’t | Panic Is Self-Inflicted Harm

It’s impossible not to read Marcus Aurelius or Seneca and sense that they were always working. Not that they were literally always at the office–as we said, they believed in a kind of work life balanc...

25 Sep 20236min

How To Be A Leader (According To Plutarch)

How To Be A Leader (According To Plutarch)

As one of history’s most important biographers and essayists, Plutarch studied deeply the traits of great Greek and Roman leaders to identify just what it is that made them great. In today’s audiobook...

24 Sep 202329min

Jake Seliger On Cancer, Acceptance, And The Gift Of Life

Jake Seliger On Cancer, Acceptance, And The Gift Of Life

Ryan speaks with Jake Seliger about how his cancer diagnosis and having his tongue removed have changed his perspective on life, why he is prioritizing people much more highly than work now, how he is...

23 Sep 20231h 9min

Consider The Cost Of Those Perks | No Pain, No Gain

Consider The Cost Of Those Perks | No Pain, No Gain

During the American Revolution—as in any war—the British quite rightly targeted the estates and the landholdings of the leadership on the American side. Because to them, these men weren’t founders—the...

22 Sep 20237min

You’ve Just Got To Keep Going Back | Ask DS

You’ve Just Got To Keep Going Back | Ask DS

It’s impossible not to read Marcus Aurelius or Seneca and sense that they were always working. Not that they were literally always at the office–as we said, they believed in a kind of work life balanc...

21 Sep 202311min

Sid Stockdale On The Stoic Legacy Of His Father, Admiral James Stockdale

Sid Stockdale On The Stoic Legacy Of His Father, Admiral James Stockdale

Ryan speaks with Sid Stockdale about his who his new memoir A World Apart: Growing Up Stockdale During Vietnam speaks to, how his family survived his father’s seven-year imprisonment, the valuable les...

20 Sep 20231h 20min

Populärt inom Business & ekonomi

badfluence
framgangspodden
varvet
rss-jossan-nina
uppgang-och-fall
rss-inga-dumma-fragor-om-pengar
rss-borsens-finest
avanzapodden
svd-tech-brief
rss-kort-lang-analyspodden-fran-di
bathina-en-podcast
fill-or-kill
montrosepodden
24fragor
borsmorgon
dynastin
rss-dagen-med-di
market-makers
tabberaset
kapitalet-en-podd-om-ekonomi