The Missing Piece of Stoicism: Why Kindness is Strength | Donald Robertson
Modern Stoicism gets sold as self-control and grit, which leaves out the part Marcus Aurelius arguably cared about most. Donald Robertson and I talk about the missing piece: the idea that real strengt...
13 Feb 202510min
How to Handle Difficult People: Stoic Strategies, Empathy vs. Compassion, and Communication Techniques
Some people are genuinely hard to deal with: the high-conflict ones, the boundary-trampling ones, the family member you cannot just walk away from. This episode is a practical toolkit for those relati...
16 Jan 20251h 8min
Donald Robertson on Socrates, Philosophy, and Modern Self-Help
I sat down with Donald Robertson, author and psychotherapist, for a proper conversation about Socrates: his life, his methods, and why a man who wrote nothing down still shapes how we think two and a ...
21 Nov 20242h 58min
Creating the Ultimate Stoic Routine: Work Rituals (2)
Part two of the series on building a Stoic daily routine, this time on the hours you actually work. Whether your work is a job, a creative project, or something like training martial arts, the aim is ...
31 Okt 202423min
Crafting The Ultimate Stoic Routine: Morning Rituals (1)
How you start the morning tends to set the temperature for the rest of the day. This is part one of the routine series, focused on a Stoic morning: a sequence of small practices that point you at clar...
20 Sep 202432min
Stoic Meditation For Judgement And Self-Compassion
The next time you catch yourself judging someone, this guided meditation turns that moment around and points it back at you, gently. Drawing on Marcus Aurelius, it walks you through noticing your own ...
2 Sep 20249min
The 3 Procrastination Traps and How to Avoid Them
A short, practical one on why we put things off and how to stop. I look at where procrastination actually comes from, why the hardest part is almost always the first few minutes of resistance, and how...
29 Aug 20249min
Embody the Stoic Dichotomy of Control: Meditation Practice
A meditation to practise the most useful idea in Stoicism until it actually sticks. The dichotomy of control is simple to say and hard to live: some things are yours (your thoughts, your actions, your...
10 Aug 202411min
