The What Is Stoicism? Podcast

An explanation from Donald Robertson's How to Think Like a Roman Emperor of a six-step worry postponement process you can try today.📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO + EMAIL CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Here are 30 short ways to be more Stoic today.Maybe one will be enough to refocus you today, or maybe you’ll decide to try one a day for the next month to get back into a Stoic rhythm.Whatever you take from this, remember to keep practicing!📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO + EMAIL CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"It can ruin your life only if it ruins your character. Otherwise it cannot harm you — inside or out."— Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 4.8📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO + EMAIL CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"You have to submit to discipline, maintain a strict diet, abstain from rich foods, exercise under compulsion at set times in weather hot and cold, refrain from drinking water or wine whenever you want — in short, you have to hand yourself over to your trainer as if he were your doctor."— Epictetus, Enchiridion 29📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO + EMAIL CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Today's episode unpacks the specific guidelines Marcus Aurelius reminded himself of when feeling anger and resentment toward others for their actions.📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO + EMAIL CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How to look beyond isolated quotes, find the deeper meaning, and benefit by applying the principle.📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO + EMAIL CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For today's episode, I welcome 8 guests who kindly submitted their own answers to the question: "What does Stoicism mean to you?"Their considered responses give great insight into how practitioners of Stoicism view the philosophy.Many thanks to Enda Harte, Brittany Polat, Michael McGill, Ranjini George, Kasey Pierce, Jamie Ryder, Lydia Scratch, Brandon Tumblin, and Henry Manampiring!📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO + EMAIL CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What we are and what we think we are can sometimes be very different things.When we get overwhelmed, it can help to look for an alternative perspective.📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO + EMAIL CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A special interview to mark episode 50 of The What Is Stoicism? Podcast!Today's guest is Jon Brooks, creator of The Stoic Handbook and HighExistence. As a big fan of Jon's work, it was a pleasure for me to have him on the podcast.In this episode, we discuss using Stoicism to cope with anxiety and talk about Jon's flagship course Stoic Anxiety Mastery.📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO + EMAIL CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“Wanting to get out of pain is the pain; it is not the “reaction” of an “I” distinct from the pain. When you discover this, the desire to escape “merges” into the pain itself and vanishes.” —Alan Watts📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO + EMAIL CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

🔗 Cheat sheetWhat is and isn't within your control: https://whatisstoicism.com/stoicism-resources/what-is-and-isnt-within-your-control-a-cheatsheet/📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO + EMAIL CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

🔗 Show links:Amor Fati: https://whatisstoicism.com/stoicism-definition/what-is-amor-fati/Negative Visualisation: https://whatisstoicism.com/stoicism-definition/what-is-negative-visualisation/📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO + EMAIL CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How to stay Stoic in a noisy world.📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO + EMAIL CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Waste no more time arguing what a good person should be. Be one.💪 Exercise linksAnonymous acts of kindness: https://whatisstoicism.com/stoicism-resources/exercise-do-an-anonymous-act-of-kindness/Define your principles: https://whatisstoicism.com/stoicism-resources/exercise-define-your-epithets-for-the-self/View from above: https://whatisstoicism.com/stoicism-resources/exercise-experience-the-view-from-above/---📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO + EMAIL CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Without a story, without an imagined reality, everything can be seen for what it is.📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO + EMAIL CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Stoic perspectives to change how you think about the past and the future so you can stop all that mental time travel.📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO + EMAIL CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

There’s a lot we can learn from animals.📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"Do not seek for things to happen the way you want them to; rather, wish that what happens happen the way it happens: then you will be happy." - Epictetus📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

When you set a goal and try to achieve it, you’re ultimately either successful or not.But consider this – if you become rich and famous without trying, or even desiring to, should you be considered "successful"?📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With a clear focus on your guiding principles, you can quickly apply them and make decisions more easily. Decisions that reflect your character.📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How to be less disrupted by criticism by using it as a learning experience.📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The present is all anyone has — the past is gone, the future is yet to come. Yes, it is wise to learn from the past and to plan for the future, but it is right now that we should focus on.📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Learn from the past, plan for the future, live in the present.📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"By the time the situation actually arrives, it isn’t too bad at all. You’ll be incredibly relieved cause it’s never as bad as you thought!"📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"Meanwhile, I owe you my little daily contribution; you shall be told what pleased me to-day in the writings of Hecato; it is these words: “What progress, you ask, have I made? I have begun to be a friend to myself.” That was indeed a great benefit; such a person can never be alone. You may be sure that such a man is a friend to all mankind."-- Seneca, Letters 6.7📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Don’t make your happiness conditional upon things outside your control.📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“Until we have begun to go without them, we fail to realise how unnecessary many things are.We’ve been using them not because we needed them but because we had them.”-- Seneca, Letters 123.6📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"Admit not sleep into your tender eyelids till you have reckoned up each deed of the day." - Epictetus, Discourses 3.10)📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Make today a good one.📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How short-sighted of us to cajole the sand into the bottom chamber of life’s hourglass when we know it can’t go back. The increasing emptiness of the top chamber speaks sadly of what has already fallen through. The hourglass clings to what remains, but time can’t be stopped or saved. It can, however, be savoured.📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“Every day and night keep thoughts like these at hand — write them, read them aloud, talk to yourself and others about them.” - Epictetus, Discourses 3.24📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“Most of us have lives filled with mediocrity. We said yes to things that we felt half-hearted about.” - Derek Sivers, Hell Yeah or No📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"There is a need, in my view, for someone as a standard against which our characters can measure themselves.Without a ruler to do it against you won’t make crooked straight.” - Seneca, Letters 11.10📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"As each day arises, welcome it as the very best day of all, and make it your own possession. We must seize what flees." - Seneca, Letters 108.27📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Do that which is easiest of all—namely, demonstrate that what men call pleasures are punishments as soon as they have exceeded due bounds.— Seneca The Younger, On Drunkenness📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A Stoic never beats themselves up.📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Take the Stoic path and decide YOUR OWN worth.📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Calming perspectives from Marcus Aurelius to relax, study, work or meditate to.📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

☕ An energizing espresso shot of Stoicism inspired by Italian coffee culture.📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

“The reward for all the virtues lies in the virtues themselves, for they are not practiced with a view to recompense; the wages of a good deed is to have done it.” - Seneca, Epistles 81.19📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment."- Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 8.47📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

With awareness we can regain our innocence, we can feel the freedom of becoming like children.📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How to start solving problems from within.📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO CONTENTCheck out What Is Stoicism? on Substack:https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Stoic reflections on empathizing. Website: https://whatisstoicism.com​Twitter: https://twitter.com/whatisstoicism​Instagram: https://instagram.com/whatisstoicism​Facebook: https://facebook.com/whatisstoicism Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How to stay on track with your Stoic goals.Website: https://whatisstoicism.com​Twitter: https://twitter.com/whatisstoicism​Instagram: https://instagram.com/whatisstoicism​Facebook: https://facebook.com/whatisstoicism Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A short introduction to the What Is Stoicism? Podcast.Website: https://whatisstoicism.com​Substack: https://whatisstoicism.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Stoic reflections for when negative thoughts start to take over.Website: https://whatisstoicism.com​Twitter: https://twitter.com/whatisstoicism​Instagram: https://instagram.com/whatisstoicism​Facebook: https://facebook.com/whatisstoicism Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Stoic reflections on removing ego and carrying water.Website: https://whatisstoicism.com​Twitter: https://twitter.com/whatisstoicism​Instagram: https://instagram.com/whatisstoicism​Facebook: https://facebook.com/whatisstoicism Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Calming music and thoughts from Marcus Aurelius to relax, study, work or meditate to.Website: https://whatisstoicism.com​Twitter: https://twitter.com/whatisstoicism​Instagram: https://instagram.com/whatisstoicism​Facebook: https://facebook.com/whatisstoicismSong: VenkatesanandaArtist: Jesse GallagherAlbum: VenkatesanandaLicensed to YouTube by YouTube Audio Library Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Stoic reflections for when you're feeling burnt out.Website: https://whatisstoicism.com​Twitter: https://twitter.com/whatisstoicism​Instagram: https://instagram.com/whatisstoicism​Facebook: https://facebook.com/whatisstoicism Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.