The Stoic Handbook with Jon Brooks

One of the best meditation books I have read is The Mind Illuminated by John Yates, who writes as Culadasa. He holds a doctorate in neuroscience and tens of thousands of hours on the cushion, and it s...

24 Mars 202114min

I read a lot, so it feels strange to say this, but reading books is a poor way to actually learn something. Exposure to ideas is not the same as living them. In this one I lay out how I think about le...

17 Mars 202110min

A Stoic Handbook reader wrote in about pornography addiction, and I do my best to give it the careful answer it deserves. It is a nuanced subject and I try not to flatten it. Part of what makes it har...

5 Mars 202126min

Work-life balance gets talked about as if it were a fixed point you could reach and hold. I think that framing sets us up to fail. In this one I share how I actually approach it. It should be useful f...

1 Mars 202118min

One of the prompts in my morning writing is simple: what three things will make up my power hour? It is the question that decides whether a day actually moves forward. In this short one I explain what...

24 Feb 20219min

Have you ever had a moment that made it suddenly obvious how much of what you worry about does not matter? For me it was the instant my son was born. The view from above is a way to reach for that cla...

6 Nov 202010min

Each night, once the house had gone quiet, Seneca would go back over his whole day, what he had done and said, hiding nothing from himself. This guided meditation is built on that practice. It follows...

29 Okt 20209min

This is a Stoic contemplation to settle into each morning before the day gets hold of you. It draws on Marcus Aurelius and his practice of premeditation of adversity, the habit of reminding yourself, ...

22 Okt 202014min