The Stoic Handbook with Jon Brooks

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 Okt 20225min

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 Sep 202213min

I spent years trying to understand and work with anxiety. In this conversation Allan, creator of WhatIsStoicism, interviews me about how I have used Stoic practice and what getting better at it has lo...

12 Sep 202245min

The Stoics talked about training the body as well as the mind, but it rarely comes up in modern Stoicism. So I asked Donald Robertson what the ancient Stoics actually thought about exercise, and how t...

8 Sep 20227min

A lot of us get into philosophy and self-improvement not to actually become wiser, but to be seen as wise. Epictetus spotted how badly that backfires. In this lesson I sit with one of his sharper pass...

1 Sep 20227min

Most of us run a quiet stress loop without noticing it. We tell ourselves we have to worry, or something bad will happen. In this episode I look at that game first, then offer the Stoic alternative Ep...

25 Aug 202213min

It is easy to read a lot about Stoicism and mistake that for actually practising it. I put this to Donald Robertson, and we get into the gap between knowing the ideas and living them, what he calls th...

7 Aug 202225min

Asked what philosophy had taught him, Diogenes the Cynic said it taught him “to be prepared for every fortune.” I think he is one of the strangest, most useful figures in this whole tradition. The Cyn...

2 Aug 20226min