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| The Ripple Effect of Teaching, Tolerance and Kindness | 04 Sep 2024 | 00:05:23 | |
The Stoics strongly believed that we should be respectful to everyone, no matter who they are or what they’ve done. It’s a freeing attitude: not only can we refuse to let the malevolent actions of others harm our free will, but we also always maintain the power to love, respect, and help those same people. 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO + EMAIL CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| The Chief Task In Life Is This | 28 Aug 2024 | 00:04:30 | |
The ancient Stoic teacher Epictetus said we should contemplate daily the freedom of our will: The fact that no matter what happens or what anyone else does, our thoughts and actions are our own and no one else’s. This knowledge of what is and isn’t ours, and of what is and isn’t possible for us, allows us to focus on the things we can actually affect. On the other hand, we are able to calmly assess the events, opinions, and circumstances that don’t land within our sphere of control and effectively say they’re fine as they are. 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO + EMAIL CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Gain Freedom From Envy With The Self-Consultation Technique | 19 Jun 2024 | 00:07:35 | |
It’s a common disruption to our tranquility: putting someone else’s life on a pedestal compared to our own. We envy the apparent prosperity and happiness of others while losing sight of the things in our own lives that we should be quite content with. The full story of someone else’s life can’t be known. Their inner world isn’t visible to us. To have their life, we’d need to inherit everything about them. Would we really be willing to take that risk? To help regain your freedom from this kind of disruption, I’ve constructed a short Stoic exercise for you to practice. 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO + EMAIL CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Notes on Building Good Character | 19 Oct 2022 | 00:03:07 | |
"It can ruin your life only if it ruins your character. Otherwise it cannot harm you — inside or out." — Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.8 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO + EMAIL CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| How to Eat, Drink, and Exercise Like a Stoic | 12 Oct 2022 | 00:08:16 | |
"You have to submit to discipline, maintain a strict diet, abstain from rich foods, exercise under compulsion at set times in weather hot and cold, refrain from drinking water or wine whenever you want — in short, you have to hand yourself over to your trainer as if he were your doctor." — Epictetus, Enchiridion 29 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO + EMAIL CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| How To Quickly Extinguish Anger And Resentment Toward Others | 05 Oct 2022 | 00:04:15 | |
Today's episode unpacks the specific guidelines Marcus Aurelius reminded himself of when feeling anger and resentment toward others for their actions. 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO + EMAIL CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| This Could Change How You Think About Stoicism | 28 Sep 2022 | 00:07:35 | |
How to look beyond isolated quotes, find the deeper meaning, and benefit by applying the principle. 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO + EMAIL CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| "What does Stoicism mean to you?": Answers from modern Stoics | 21 Sep 2022 | 00:25:09 | |
For today's episode, I welcome 8 guests who kindly submitted their own answers to the question: "What does Stoicism mean to you?" Their considered responses give great insight into how practitioners of Stoicism view the philosophy. Many thanks to Enda Harte, Brittany Polat, Michael McGill, Ranjini George, Kasey Pierce, Jamie Ryder, Lydia Scratch, Brandon Tumblin, and Henry Manampiring! 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO + EMAIL CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Here’s What We Are... (A Brief Perspective Reset) | 14 Sep 2022 | 00:05:05 | |
What we are and what we think we are can sometimes be very different things. When we get overwhelmed, it can help to look for an alternative perspective. 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO + EMAIL CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| How to Use Stoicism to Discard Your Anxiety: An Interview With Jon Brooks | 07 Sep 2022 | 00:44:50 | |
A special interview to mark episode 50 of The What Is Stoicism? Podcast! Today's guest is Jon Brooks, creator of The Stoic Handbook and HighExistence. As a big fan of Jon's work, it was a pleasure for me to have him on the podcast. In this episode, we discuss using Stoicism to cope with anxiety and talk about Jon's flagship course Stoic Anxiety Mastery. 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO + EMAIL CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| A Better (Stoic) Way To Escape Pain | 31 Aug 2022 | 00:02:59 | |
“Wanting to get out of pain is the pain; it is not the “reaction” of an “I” distinct from the pain. When you discover this, the desire to escape “merges” into the pain itself and vanishes.” —Alan Watts 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO + EMAIL CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| A Quick Reminder Of What Is And Isn't Within Your Control | 24 Aug 2022 | 00:02:28 | |
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| These 2 Stoic Practices Will Ease Your Anxiety | 17 Aug 2022 | 00:07:00 | |
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| Guided Contemplation - Embrace Your Insignificance | 12 Jun 2024 | 00:08:59 | |
A guided contemplation to help you reflect on a powerful idea from Stoicism: the notion that our insignificance isn't a bad thing. This idea can be liberating and transformative, guiding us toward greater peace, humility, and—surprisingly—purpose. 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO + EMAIL CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Why We Have Two Ears And One Tongue | 10 Aug 2022 | 00:03:19 | |
How to stay Stoic in a noisy world. 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO + EMAIL CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 10 Stoic Questions That Will Get You To Take Action Today | 03 Aug 2022 | 00:11:17 | |
Waste no more time arguing what a good person should be. Be one. 💪 Exercise links
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| Stoicism, Whisky, And Seeing Things For What They Are | 27 Jul 2022 | 00:04:38 | |
Without a story, without an imagined reality, everything can be seen for what it is. 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO + EMAIL CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| How To Return To The Present Moment | 20 Jul 2022 | 00:06:46 | |
Stoic perspectives to change how you think about the past and the future so you can stop all that mental time travel. 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO + EMAIL CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| The Stoicism Of Looking At A Sheep | 13 Jul 2022 | 00:04:41 | |
There’s a lot we can learn from animals. 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Meditation Episode: Practicing Stoic Acceptance | 06 Jul 2022 | 00:07:15 | |
"Do not seek for things to happen the way you want them to; rather, wish that what happens happen the way it happens: then you will be happy." - Epictetus 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Success Might Not Be What You Think It Is | 29 Jun 2022 | 00:02:54 | |
When you set a goal and try to achieve it, you’re ultimately either successful or not. But consider this – if you become rich and famous without trying, or even desiring to, should you be considered "successful"? 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| A Short But Powerful Exercise: Define Your Own Principles | 22 Jun 2022 | 00:02:09 | |
With a clear focus on your guiding principles, you can quickly apply them and make decisions more easily. Decisions that reflect your character. 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 4 Stoic Questions To Ask Yourself When You've Been Criticised | 15 Jun 2022 | 00:05:45 | |
How to be less disrupted by criticism by using it as a learning experience. 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Life Is A Mere Moment, Do As A Stoic Would And Live Immediately | 08 Jun 2022 | 00:05:51 | |
The present is all anyone has — the past is gone, the future is yet to come. Yes, it is wise to learn from the past and to plan for the future, but it is right now that we should focus on. 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Freedom Is Having A Mind Superior To Injury | 05 Jun 2024 | 00:05:02 | |
"Liberty is having a mind superior to injury, a mind that makes itself the only source from which its pleasures spring, that separates itself from all external things, avoiding the unquiet life of one who fears everybody’s laughter, everybody’s tongue. For if there is anyone who can offer an insult, who cannot?" —Seneca, On the Constancy of the Wise Man 19.2 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO + EMAIL CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| How To Learn, Plan, And Live Like A Stoic | 01 Jun 2022 | 00:06:12 | |
Learn from the past, plan for the future, live in the present. 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| 4 Stoic Steps To Deal With Future Uncertainty | 25 May 2022 | 00:05:59 | |
"By the time the situation actually arrives, it isn’t too bad at all. You’ll be incredibly relieved cause it’s never as bad as you thought!" 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| How To Be Your Own Best Friend | 18 May 2022 | 00:07:47 | |
"Meanwhile, I owe you my little daily contribution; you shall be told what pleased me to-day in the writings of Hecato; it is these words: “What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.” That was indeed a great benefit; such a person can never be alone. You may be sure that such a man is a friend to all mankind." -- Seneca, Letters 6.7 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Applying Stoicism To Your If-Then-Else Statement | 11 May 2022 | 00:02:42 | |
Don’t make your happiness conditional upon things outside your control. 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Exercise: Learn To Want What You Have | 04 May 2022 | 00:04:05 | |
“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realise how unnecessary many things are. We’ve been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.” -- Seneca, Letters 123.6 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Meditation Episode: A Simple Stoic Evening Meditation To Review Your Day | 02 May 2022 | 00:08:27 | |
"Admit not sleep into your tender eyelids till you have reckoned up each deed of the day." - Epictetus, Discourses 3.10) 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| How To Have A Good Day In Under 2 Minutes | 27 Apr 2022 | 00:01:32 | |
Make today a good one. 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| How Stoicism Stops You Wishing Your Life Away | 20 Apr 2022 | 00:02:28 | |
How short-sighted of us to cajole the sand into the bottom chamber of life’s hourglass when we know it can’t go back. The increasing emptiness of the top chamber speaks sadly of what has already fallen through. The hourglass clings to what remains, but time can’t be stopped or saved. It can, however, be savoured. 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Meditation Episode: A Simple Stoic Afternoon Meditation To Keep Your Day On Track | 18 Apr 2022 | 00:10:22 | |
“Every day and night keep thoughts like these at hand — write them, read them aloud, talk to yourself and others about them.” - Epictetus, Discourses 3.24 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Exercise: Say No Like A Stoic | 13 Apr 2022 | 00:03:49 | |
“Most of us have lives filled with mediocrity. We said yes to things that we felt half-hearted about.” - Derek Sivers, Hell Yeah or No 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| How To Acquire Something That Will Fortify You Every Day | 29 May 2024 | 00:05:24 | |
"Each day acquire something that will fortify you against poverty, against death, indeed against other misfortunes as well; and after you have run over many thoughts, select one to be thoroughly digested that day." —Seneca, Letters 2.4 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO + EMAIL CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| How To Get Advice From Your Role Models | 06 Apr 2022 | 00:03:41 | |
"There is a need, in my view, for someone as a standard against which our characters can measure themselves. Without a ruler to do it against you won’t make crooked straight.” - Seneca, Letters 11.10 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Meditation Episode: A Simple Stoic Morning Meditation You Can Use Every Day | 04 Apr 2022 | 00:09:08 | |
"As each day arises, welcome it as the very best day of all, and make it your own possession. We must seize what flees." - Seneca, Letters 108.27 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Applying The Virtue Of Moderation | 30 Mar 2022 | 00:04:59 | |
Do that which is easiest of all—namely, demonstrate that what men call pleasures are punishments as soon as they have exceeded due bounds. — Seneca The Younger, On Drunkenness 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| How To Deal With Regrets | 23 Mar 2022 | 00:02:30 | |
A Stoic never beats themselves up. 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Approve Yourself | 16 Mar 2022 | 00:03:55 | |
Take the Stoic path and decide YOUR OWN worth. 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Relaxation Episode: Calming Perspectives With Marcus Aurelius | 09 Mar 2022 | 00:13:29 | |
Calming perspectives from Marcus Aurelius to relax, study, work or meditate to. 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| How To Make Coffee A Stoic Experience | 02 Mar 2022 | 00:05:38 | |
☕ An energizing espresso shot of Stoicism inspired by Italian coffee culture. 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| How To Do Anonymous Acts Of Kindness | 23 Feb 2022 | 00:05:48 | |
“The reward for all the virtues lies in the virtues themselves, for they are not practiced with a view to recompense; the wages of a good deed is to have done it.” - Seneca, Epistles 81.19 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| How To See Through The Clouds | 16 Feb 2022 | 00:05:07 | |
"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment." - Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.47 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| How To Reclaim Your Innocence | 09 Feb 2022 | 00:05:00 | |
With awareness we can regain our innocence, we can feel the freedom of becoming like children. 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Stoic Paradox 1 - Virtue Is The Only True Good | 22 May 2024 | 00:06:55 | |
In this episode, we look at Cicero's explanation of the Stoics' main guiding principle—that virtue is the only true good in life. 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO + EMAIL CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Stoic Solutions For Feelings Of Insecurity | 02 Feb 2022 | 00:05:09 | |
How to start solving problems from within. 📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENT Check out What Is Stoicism? on Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| How To See Things From Someone Else's Perspective | 26 Jan 2022 | 00:02:42 | |
Stoic reflections on empathizing. Website: https://whatisstoicism.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/whatisstoicism Instagram: https://instagram.com/whatisstoicism Facebook: https://facebook.com/whatisstoicism Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Stoic Exercise: Review Your Progress | 19 Jan 2022 | 00:03:59 | |
How to stay on track with your Stoic goals. Website: https://whatisstoicism.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/whatisstoicism Instagram: https://instagram.com/whatisstoicism Facebook: https://facebook.com/whatisstoicism Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||