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 Juni 202310min
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 Juni 20236min
The Paradox of The Dichotomy of Control and the Trap of Feeling Good
Almost everyone who reads a bit of Stoicism gets the dichotomy of control. Far fewer actually feel any relief from it. You can recite "some things are up to us and some are not" and still lie awake at...
16 Juni 20239min
Writing to Resilience: Inside My Daily Stoic Journaling Practice
This is a behind-the-scenes look at the Stoic morning journal I actually do, not an idealised version. I walk through how I lay the page out to set the day, remember what matters, and meet whatever co...
9 Juni 202316min
How To Support Someone Without Taking On Their Pain
People think Stoicism means going cold. Caring about the right things, feeling nothing for the rest. I think that gets it backwards. In this episode I look at how to hold space for someone who is suff...
9 Maj 20239min
How Self-Reflection Shapes Happiness | Justin Noppé
Which emotions make a life feel good, and how much of that is in your control? Justin Noppé and I use that question to examine self-reflection, journalling and the role of anticipation in happiness. W...
11 Apr 202345min
AMA #3: How to Escape Intrusive Negative Thoughts
You cannot stop intrusive thoughts from arriving. What you can change is what happens next. In this AMA I take questions on how to stop getting hooked by negative thoughts, and how the Stoic view of j...
27 Mars 202316min
How To Turn Stoicism Into A Daily Practice | Allan From WhatIsStoicism
Allan found Stoicism through Tim Ferriss and William Irvine, then had to work out how to make it part of an ordinary day. We spend most of this conversation on the practice that stuck: journalling. Al...
16 Mars 20231h 33min
