Marcus Aurelius Morning Meditation For Difficult People
Marcus Aurelius began the day by reminding himself that he would meet meddling, ungrateful and difficult people. This guided morning contemplation turns that note into a practice. You will picture the...
13 Dec 202215min
2 Types of Desires That Always Cause Disappointment
Some desires are set up to disappoint you no matter what you do. In this lesson I name two of them, what I call impossible desires and slave desires, and show why both leave you suffering even when th...
29 Nov 202212min
How To Handle Insults: A Stoic Step-By-Step
An insult only lands if you agree with it. That is the Stoic claim, and in this lesson I turn it into something you can actually use. I walk through a step-by-step way of meeting an insult so it loses...
13 Nov 202230min
3 Communication Skills For Better Relationships
Most relationship trouble is really a communication problem wearing a disguise. In this talk I lay out the three pillars I keep coming back to: the habits that quietly wreck conversations, a simple wa...
2 Nov 202240min
Stoic Loving-Kindness Meditation For Compassion And Service
Loving-kindness is usually associated with Buddhism, but the Stoics also believed we are made for each other. This guided meditation moves through three forms of compassion: care for one person, care ...
20 Okt 202219min
Can Stoic "Positive Reframing" Go Too Far? w/ Donald Robertson
Reframing a bad event into something useful is one of the classic Stoic moves. But I have always wondered where the line is. Can you reframe too much? Is there a point where turning everything into a ...
17 Okt 20225min
Stoic Gratitude Meditation For Awe In Ordinary Life
Most of what keeps you alive is invisible to you right now. The food and water that arrived without you thinking about it. The atmosphere holding at exactly the right balance. The sheer unlikelihood o...
22 Sep 202213min
My Experience Using Stoicism With Anxiety | WhatIsStoicism
I spent years trying to understand and work with anxiety. In this conversation Allan, creator of WhatIsStoicism, interviews me about how I have used Stoic practice and what getting better at it has lo...
12 Sep 202245min
