The "What If Technique" to Untangle the Source of Your Anxiety
When you are anxious, the fear is usually hiding underneath a vaguer worry. The What If technique is a way of following the thread down to whatever you are actually afraid of, so you can deal with the...
27 Juli 202213min
Can Stoicism Make You Happier? | Donald Robertson
Modern Stoicism gets sold mostly as resilience and acceptance. But I wanted to ask the obvious follow-up: can it actually make life more joyful? Not just calmer, but richer in awe, laughter, the good ...
18 Juli 202210min
Donald Robertson Writes The World’s First Stoic Graphic Novel
Donald Robertson spent nearly three years making VERISSIMUS, a graphic novel about the life and philosophy of Marcus Aurelius. It might be the most ambitious philosophy project I have come across: his...
12 Juli 202258min
The Path of the Spiritual Warrior
The spiritual warrior is someone who treats every hardship as training rather than punishment. In this short clip I unpack that idea and how the Stoics turned adversity into an advantage instead of so...
1 Juli 20226min
James Stockdale and the Power of Realistic Optimism
James Stockdale spent over seven years as a prisoner of war and credited Stoicism with getting him through. What he noticed there became the Stockdale Paradox: the people who broke first were the opti...
24 Juni 202211min
The Stoic Reframe to Deal with Loss of Any Kind
The Stoics had a hard but freeing way of thinking about loss. Nothing is really yours. Everything you enjoy is on loan, and grief hurts less when you stop treating what was taken as something you owne...
11 Juni 20227min
How Stoicism Helped Me Stop Fighting Anxiety
I spent years trying different ways to get rid of anxiety. Stoicism and cognitive behavioural therapy gave me a better question: what happens if I stop treating every anxious feeling as a problem that...
20 Maj 20221h 17min
Hard Challenges Unlock Inner Superpowers
The Stoic claim here is bold: whatever lands in front of you, you already hold the inner resource to meet it. Tempted? You also carry self-restraint. The more you practise, the more you trust that no ...
17 Maj 20226min
