Is Your Need for Approval Causing Anxiety? A Talk with Dr. Aziz
A lot of anxiety hides behind being nice. Dr. Aziz Gazipura has a PhD in clinical psychology and spends his time helping people build social confidence, and his work named something I had felt for yea...
27 Elo 202345min
Embracing Fate: Nietzsche's Answer to the Victim Mentality
You can be a genuine victim of something terrible and still refuse to live as a victim. That distinction is the whole episode. As I put it in the conversation, "the victim mindset is not just disempow...
13 Elo 202331min
Stoicism Meets Authenticity: A Conversation with Dan Munro
A friend kept telling me I had to talk to Dan Munro, so I did, and this is the first of what became several conversations. Dan is a confidence coach with an unusual back story: he was a probation offi...
10 Elo 20231h 49min
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: Insights with Donald Robertson
Donald Robertson is one of the people who has done most to bring Stoicism into the modern world, partly because he comes at it as a clinical psychologist who sees how closely it tracks cognitive thera...
31 Heinä 20231h 45min
Build Discipline Through Habits And Community | Eric Brown
Eric Brown is back, and this conversation is about the unglamorous engine room of change: habits. As he puts it, "your daily disciplines cast a vote for the person you want to be and the person you're...
17 Heinä 20231h 31min
How To Put Stoicism Into Practice | Donald Robertson
Donald Robertson describes Stoicism as "a kind of psychological toolbox", full of strategies for handling anxiety, anger and pain, and that framing runs through this whole conversation. We trace the h...
5 Heinä 20231h 19min
Why, What, How: A Calmer Way To Build Discipline
We tend to think of discipline as punishment, something you do to someone, or to yourself, when they get it wrong. This episode argues the opposite: at root, to discipline is to teach. Once you see it...
29 Kesä 20239min
Stoic Role Ethics: Stop Trying To Be Everything
Trying to be everything to everyone is a fast route to feeling stretched and resentful. The Stoics had a cleaner idea, role ethics: at any given moment you are playing a specific role, parent, friend,...
23 Kesä 20235min
