Stoic Focus Training: A Six-Step Plan For Distraction
Distraction is rarely a willpower problem. It is usually a setup problem: we sit down to focus without ever preparing the ground. This episode walks through a six-step process I use to prepare for med...
7 Nov 20231h 7min
How To Handle Criticism Without Abandoning Your Work
When you put your work out in public, the criticism comes. I am an introvert who ended up making content for a living, so I have had my share of being told I was doing the wrong thing in the wrong way...
3 Nov 20237min
Stoic Journalling For Beginners: Build A Daily Practice
Marcus Aurelius did not write Meditations for publication. It was his working notebook. This episode shows how to build a philosophical journalling habit that does a real job: reviewing the day, check...
19 Okt 20239min
A Stoic Meditation on Awe: Seeing the Invisible
A guided Stoic meditation on awe. We slow down and try to see what is usually invisible to us: the sheer unlikeliness of being here at all, the scale of the universe we are a small part of, the ordina...
12 Okt 20235min
The 6-Step Mental Checklist Before You Do Anything
We make most decisions on autopilot and only notice afterwards that we reacted instead of chose. This episode lays out a six-step mental checklist you can run before you act, so you meet a situation w...
9 Okt 20237min
Set Stoic Internal Goals: Focus On What You Control
If you set your goal as winning, you have handed your peace of mind to other people and to luck. Epictetus had a fix for this, and it is the heart of Chapter 19 of his Enchiridion: aim at things that ...
4 Okt 202311min
Stoic Meditation To Calm Your Mind Before You Act
Nerves and overthinking often arrive just before you need to act. This short guided meditation uses a few Stoic ideas to settle the mind: what is in your hands, what is outside them, and what the next...
24 Sep 20239min
Healing Versus Awakening | Zen Teacher Henry Shukman
Henry Shukman is a Zen teacher and meditation instructor who has woven together meditative practice, psychotherapy and plant medicine on his own road from eczema, anxiety and despair toward something ...
17 Sep 20231h 5min
