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What is Stoicism? Answers From Guests (Episode 108)

New Year's Resolutions for Stoics (Episode 107)

Don't expect change in an instant

Aiste Celkyte on the Stoic Theory of Beauty (Episode 106)

No More Procrastination

New Year's Resolutions For Stoics

You can always choose

The Stoic Solution To Procrastination (Episode 105)

The First Stoic Role Model

Rob LaFleur on Confucianism and Being All in on Life (Episode 104)

Fire In Stoicism

Should Stoics Do Politics? (Episode 103)

Mahmoud Rasmi on Philosophy for Business Leaders (Episode 102)

The Stoic Path To Virtue

Existentialism 101 for Stoics (Episode 101)

Remind Yourself of This Every Morning

Remind Yourself Of This Every Morning (Episode 100)

Stoicism and Confucianism

A Short Meditation on Impermanence

Forgiveness and Clemency (Episode 99)

Jennifer Baker on Teaching and Living Stoicism (Episode 98)

Healthy Boundaries, Happy Life (Episode 97)

Life as a Game

Acceptance and Freedom

Allan John and What Is Stoicism (Episode 96)

Stoic Happiness

Finding The Place Between Stimulus And Response

Gladiator (Episode 95)

William O Stephens on Musonius Rufus, Food, and Fashion (Episode 94)

Healthy vs Unhealthy Shame

What Makes Stoicism Radical

All You Need To Know About Determinism and Freewill in Stoicism (Episode 93)

Jeremy Reid on Anger and Forgiveness (Episode 92)

Shame and Self-respect (Episode 91)

Is Naive Stoicism Bad for Mental Health?

Zena Hitz on The Meaning of Life, and Religion (Episode 90)

Purpose Setting

Stoicism and Punishment (Episode 89)

Steven C Hayes on Wisdom, Love, and Acceptance (Episode 88)

The Reserve Clause

A Recipe for Sagehood

The Discipline of Action (Episode 87)

Stoicism & Buddhism

Noah Rasheta on Buddism (Episode 86)

The Discipline of Desire (Episode 85)

Circumscribing the Present

Alexandra Hudson on the Soul of Civlity (Episode 84)

Is Politeness Overrated?

The Discipline of Judgment (Episode 83)

Josiah Osgood on Caesar and Cato's Epic Rivalry (Episode 82)

10 essential Stoic exercises

What Stoics Can Learn From Buddhists

Buddhism 101 (Episode 81)

The Discipline of Action

Jeremy Wayne Tate on Reviving Classical Education (Episode 80)

Sleeping like a Stoic

The original Stoic role model

How to Think Fast, Slow, and Stoic (Episode 79)

Chris Gill on Learning to Live Naturally (Episode 78)

The Discipline of Desire

Getting Stoic About Food (Episode 77)

Gregory Sadler on Criticisms of Stoicism ( Episode 76)

A Stoic On Time

The Discipline of Judgment

Why Study Ancient Philosophy? (Episode 75)

Dana Gioia on Seneca and The Madness of Hercules (Episode 74)

Nothing in Excess

The Three Domains of Life

All About Eros, Love, and Heartbreak (Episode 73)

Randolph Nesse on Anxiety and Evolution (Episode 72)

Self-defeating targets

This Ancient Roman Woman Is A Role Models For All

Facing and Overcoming Failure (Episode 71)

How to Remember Stoic Maxims

Is Memorization Underrated Today?

Catherine Wilson on the Epicurean Life (Episode 70)

A Stoic Meditation For Doing Your Best

Lives of the Stoics (Episode 69)

Memento Mori

David Fideler on The Stoic Renaissance (Episode 68)

You Don't Need Many Arguments to Prove a Point

Memento Mori (Episode 67)

Finding Happiness at Work: A Stoic Perspective

Michael Gibson on Philosophy Outside of the Academy and Stoicism in Silicon Valley (Episode 66)

Embracing Evolutionary Reality

Everything You Need To Know About Graduate School (Episode 65)

Why Aren’t You Happy Already?

Leonidas Konstantakos on Stoic Justice (Episode 64)

Seeing For The First Time

Skepticism as a Philosophy of Life (Episode 63)

The Essence of Stoic Mindfulness

Michael McGill on Applying Stoicism (Episode 62)

10 Stoic principles for getting things done

Why Virtue is the ONLY good (Episode 61)

Simple steps for self-transformation

Brittany Polat on Living as a Stoic (Episode 60)

How Marcus Aurelius prepared for crises

Everything You Should Know About Ancient Stoicism (Episode 59)

How Stoics Rethink Crises

Spencer Klavan on Stoicism and the Crises of Our Time (Episode 58)

How to balance our short lives

Role Ethics: The Stoic Decision-Making Framework (Episode 57)

Do you know who you should be?

Greg Lopez on Stoicism and Buddhism (Episode 56)

An Underrated Approach For Overcoming Anger

Building Stoic Mindfulness (Episode 55)

The Most Damaging Negative Emotion

Will Johncock On Why Stoics Shouldn't Ignore Their Social Nature (Episode 54)

What's Your Stoic Story?

Why Anger Is Always Bad (Episode 53)

10 Books Every Stoic Should Read

Chris Gill on The Core Tenets of Stoicism (Episode 52)

What Is the Happy Life?

Applying The View From Above (Episode 51)

How To Understand The Stoic Dichotomy Of Control

Stoicism For Me But Not For Thee With Marcus Hedahl (Episode 50)

The Most Overlooked Aspect of Stoicism

On Jordan Peterson (Episode 49)

Becoming More Stoic With Marcus Aurelius

Gordon Marino on Existentialism and Authenticity (Episode 48)

Three Calming 60 Second Breath Exercises

The Socratic Method (Episode 47)

The Stoic Belief That Brings Calm

Rob Goodman on Risk and Rhetoric (Episode 46)

What's Missing In The Obstacle Is the Way?

The Obstacle Is the Way (Episode 45)

This Is What Matters Today

Marcus Hedahl on Stoic Happiness (Episode 44)

If You Had a Year Left: Stoicism and the Shortness of Life

Are Right and Wrong Real? (Episode 43)

Becoming More Stoic With Seneca

David Fideler on Seneca and Deep Stoicism (Episode 42)

6 Ways to Find Calm

The Stoic Heretic: Aristo of Chios (Episode 41)

Get Perspective With This Technique

Hampus Jakobsson on Playing the Game of Life (Episode 40)

How to Achieve Stoic Freedom

12 Rules for Life (Episode 39)

Who was Epictetus?

Tanner Campbell on Practical Stoicism (Episode 38)

From Forgettable to Memorable

The Stoic View on Voluntary Suffering (Episode 37)

Staying Calm in the Age of Information

Stoic Stillness in the Digital Age

Julia Galef on Scout Mindset (Episode 36)

5 Ways Stoic Therapy Works

Weakness of Will (Episode 35)

To Think or Not to Think

Mindfulness Meditation for Stoics

Emily Austin on Stoicism's Rival (Episode 34)

XVI. A Nine Point Guide For A Better Life

Chris Fisher on Traditional Stoicism (Episode 33)

XV. A Lesson from Rome's Greatest Leaders

Scott Aikin on We Are the Stoics Now (Episode 32)

XIV. Don't Play Other People's Games

XIII. How to Endure Pain

Close Reading: Meditations 3 (Episode 31)

XII. 5 Life Lessons from Cato the Younger

XI. A Role Model for All Stoics

William Eden on Rome, Negative Actualization, and Covid Epistemics (Episode 30)

X. Stoicism Is for You, No One Else

All You Need To Know to Find Calm With Stoicism – in 2 Minutes

How To Deal With Non-Stoic People (Episode 29)

IX. Eight Ways To Deal With Non-Stoic People

VIII. What You Really Want

Luke Burgis on Why You Need to Know Mimetic Theory (Episode 28)

VII. Stoicism is Not About Reducing Negative Emotions

Dying Well: Stoicism and Euthanasia (Episode 27)

VI. One Thing Every Meaningful Life Has

V. The Stoic Solution to Stress

William Stephens on Epictetus's Handbook (Episode 26)

On Theory vs Practice and Spartan Minimalism with Musonius Rufus (Episode 25)

IV. Be Invulnerable

Michael Bonner on the Rise and Fall of Civilization (Episode 24)

Stoic Psychology: Epictetus on Why What You Think is Up To You (Episode 23)

III. Stoics Don't Complain

Nate Anderson on Applying Nietzsche in the Digital Age (Episode 22)

The Stoic Training Program

Manage Negative Emotions

Bryan Hill on the Confidence to be Creative (Episode 21)

David Jilk on Nietzsche's Sequel to Stoicism (Episode 20)

Liron Shapira on Specificity and AI Doom (Episode 19)

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II. Say Yes to Life

The Fossilized Stoic Way of Life: Nietzsche on Stoicism (Episode 18)

How Stoicism Addresses Anxiety with Tim Lebon (Episode 17)

I: Living Like A Phoenix

Reading the Handbook (Episode 16)

Legends in Ancient Rome and Modern Tech with Jimmy Soni (Episode 15)

Stoicism in Silicon Valley (Episode 14)

The Best Practical Philosophy Ever with Massimo Pigliucci (Episode 13)

Stoicism and Sport (Episode 12)

Socratic Stoicism and Mental Health with Donald Robertson (Episode 11)

Epicureanism (Episode 10)

Ancient Heroes with Alex Petkas (Episode 9)

Six Stoicisms: Modern vs Traditional Stoicism and More (Episode 8)

Fake News, Real Stoicism with Justin McBrayer (Episode 7)

John Vervaeke on the Transformative Power of Stoicism (Episode 6)

Why You Should Compare Yourself to Other People (Episode 5)

The Art of Happiness With Sharon Lebell (Episode 4)

Stoicism FAQ: Freewill, Happiness, and Death (Episode 3)