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	Title	Pub. Date	Duration
	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: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com 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: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com 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: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com 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: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com 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: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com 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: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com 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: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com 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: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com 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
🔗 Cheat sheet What is and isn't within your control: https://whatisstoicism.com/stoicism-resources/what-is-and-isnt-within-your-control-a-cheatsheet/ 📻 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.
	These 2 Stoic Practices Will Ease Your Anxiety	17 Aug 2022	00:07:00
🔗 Show links: Amor Fati: https://whatisstoicism.com/stoicism-definition/what-is-amor-fati/ Negative Visualisation: https://whatisstoicism.com/stoicism-definition/what-is-negative-visualisation/ 📻 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.
	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: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com 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 Anonymous acts of kindness: https://whatisstoicism.com/stoicism-resources/exercise-do-an-anonymous-act-of-kindness/ Define your principles: https://whatisstoicism.com/stoicism-resources/exercise-define-your-epithets-for-the-self/ View from above: https://whatisstoicism.com/stoicism-resources/exercise-experience-the-view-from-above/ --- 📻 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.
	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: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com 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: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com 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.

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