How Desire Takes Control: Three Stages Of Stoic Practice
Desire becomes a problem when wanting an external result starts to run your life. This episode maps three stages of attachment and three ways the Stoics worked with desire so it loosened its hold. I o...
24 Joulu 20229min
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 Joulu 202214min
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 Marras 202211min
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 Marras 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 Marras 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 Loka 202218min
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 Loka 20224min
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 Syys 202212min
