How To Use Bad Luck Without Pretending It Is Good
A bad weather forecast, a worrying noise from the car, a small omen that something is about to go wrong. These little signals can sour a whole day if you let them. This episode is about a Stoic move f...
12 Sep 20237min
How To Make Better Trade-Offs When Time Is Tight
Becoming a parent stripped my time down to almost nothing, and it turned out to be the best thing that ever happened to my focus. This episode is about what I learned from Greg McKeown's "Essentialism...
4 Sep 202310min
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 Aug 202346min
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 Aug 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 Aug 20231h 51min
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 Juli 20231h 47min
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 Juli 20231h 33min
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 Juli 20231h 21min
