91% of Goals Fail: A Stoic Philosopher Explained Why 2,000 Years Ago
Most resolutions fail because they are built wrong, not because you lack willpower. Epictetus worked out why 2,000 years ago. In this episode I break down three tests from Stoic philosophy that expose...
16 Maalis 17min
Stoic Morning Energy Boost: 5 Minutes To Wake Up Ready
Some mornings you do not need calm. You need to wake up. This 5-minute Stoic practice is built for the mornings when your body is out of bed but your mind has not followed. You will move through five ...
14 Maalis 3min
Your Opinions Aren't Observations, They're Demands
You form hundreds of opinions a day. About the news, about your colleagues, about the person in front of you in the queue. They feel automatic, like seeing. But they are not observations. They are tin...
10 Maalis 8min
"Remove Desire Entirely": What Epictetus Actually Meant
You read that line in the Discourses and your mind goes straight to cravings. Appetites. The stuff you are ashamed of. But that is not what Epictetus meant, and the real meaning is more useful than an...
3 Maalis 10min
Marcus Aurelius Morning Meditation: Face The Day With Stoic Calm
You know the feeling. The alarm goes off and the day is already rushing at you. The emails, the conversations you are not ready for, the low-grade dread of what might go wrong. Marcus Aurelius knew it...
27 Helmi 8min
Stoic Indifferents Explained: How to Want Without Suffering
If only virtue is good, why does anything else matter? Why go to the gym, build a career, or plan for the future? This is the question that confused me for about a year of reading Stoic texts, and the...
24 Helmi 9min
Own What's Yours: The Dichotomy of Control (From The Vault)
This episode is a full lesson from one of the premium courses inside The Stoic Vault, my membership for people who practise Stoicism rather than just read about it. The lesson comes from the course St...
16 Helmi 13min
The Stoic Vault: What I Built and Why
About two years ago, I hit a wall. I had been teaching Stoicism for years. Writing about it. Making podcasts about it. And I was still losing my temper. Still spiralling over emails. Still lying awake...
2 Helmi 10min
