Meditation #11 from Book #1 -- This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Visit https://betterhelp.com/stoicism today to get 10% off your first month. -- Try the best brain fuel on earth. Use PRACTICAL to save 15% at checkout at https://neurohacker.com/practical -- Get rid of ads and support our work : https://link.stoicismpod.com/members Hang out with us in our free listener community: https://link.stoicismpod.com/discord Read our articles on Substack: https://stoicismpod.substack.com Join o...
Apr 17, 2023•9 min•Season 1Ep. 120
Seneca's 5th letter is about the balance between poverty and opulence, for the good of those we teach. The Philosopher's Mean. -- Get rid of ads and support our work : https://link.stoicismpod.com/members Hang out with us in our free listener community: https://link.stoicismpod.com/discord Read our articles on Substack: https://stoicismpod.substack.com Join our daily Stoic journaling program : https://link.stoicismpod.com/journaling Join our Stoic mentoring community : https://link.stoicismpod.c...
Apr 12, 2023•10 min•Season 1Ep. 119
Meditation #10 from Book #1 -- Get rid of ads and support our work : https://link.stoicismpod.com/members Hang out with us in our free listener community: https://link.stoicismpod.com/discord Read our articles on Substack: https://stoicismpod.substack.com Join our daily Stoic journaling program : https://link.stoicismpod.com/journaling Join our Stoic mentoring community : https://link.stoicismpod.com/path -- View a list of our sponsors : https://link.stoicismpod.com/sponsors -- Visit our website...
Apr 10, 2023•9 min•Season 1Ep. 118
Don't be alone, don't be with the crowd either - be with someone who makes you ashamed to act badly in their presence. -- Get rid of ads and support our work : https://link.stoicismpod.com/members Leave us a one-time tip of support : https://stoicismpod.com/tip Hang out with us in our free listener community: https://link.stoicismpod.com/discord Read our articles on Substack: https://stoicismpod.substack.com Join our daily Stoic journaling program : https://link.stoicismpod.com/journaling Join o...
Apr 05, 2023•9 min•Season 1Ep. 117
Don't fool yourself into believing you're to busy to be connected with other members of the cosmopolis in a meaningful way. -- Get rid of ads and support our work : https://link.stoicismpod.com/members Leave us a one-time tip of support : https://stoicismpod.com/tip Hang out with us in our free listener community: https://link.stoicismpod.com/discord Read our articles on Substack: https://stoicismpod.substack.com Join our daily Stoic journaling program : https://link.stoicismpod.com/journaling J...
Apr 03, 2023•9 min•Season 1Ep. 116
Join us on Clubhouse this week for something different. Here's how to do that: 1 - Download the Clubhouse app on iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clubhouse/id1503133294 or Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.clubhouse.app 2 - Create an account on the Clubhouse app 3 - Join the Practical Stoicism "Club" here: https://www.clubhouse.com/club/practical-stoicism-podcast That's it. From the Practical Stoicism Club page you should be able to see our schedule events. Add them to...
Apr 03, 2023•4 min•Season 1Ep. 115
Was "Seneca Tragicus" Seneca the Youngers ultimate form? Maybe! In this week's letter we talk about tragedy and trauma. -- Get rid of ads and support our work : https://link.stoicismpod.com/members Leave us a one-time tip of support : https://stoicismpod.com/tip Hang out with us in our free listener community: https://link.stoicismpod.com/discord Read our articles on Substack: https://stoicismpod.substack.com Join our daily Stoic journaling program : https://link.stoicismpod.com/journaling Join ...
Mar 28, 2023•16 min•Season 1Ep. 114
We demand things of our leaders, but what do we demand of ourselves as leaders and as individuals with various duties? -- Hang out with us in our free listener community: https://link.stoicismpod.com/discord Read articles on our Substack : https://stoicismpod.substack.com Join our daily Stoic journaling program : https://link.stoicismpod.com/journaling Join our Stoic mentoring community : https://link.stoicismpod.com/path -- Visit our website : https://stoicismpod.com Check out our reading list ...
Mar 27, 2023•9 min•Season 1Ep. 113
Every step you take, every move you make, every breath you take, every vow you break, SENECA will be watching you. -- Get rid of ads and support our work : https://link.stoicismpod.com/members Hang out with us in our free listener community: https://link.stoicismpod.com/discord Join our daily Stoic journaling program : https://link.stoicismpod.com/journaling Join our Stoic mentoring community : https://link.stoicismpod.com/path -- View a list of our sponsors : https://link.stoicismpod.com/sponso...
Mar 21, 2023•12 min•Season 1Ep. 112
Are you a grammar nazi? Do you attempt to invalidate arguments based on spelling or pronunciation errors? Well then, I've got a particular grammarian I'd like you to meet. -- Get rid of ads and support our work : https://link.stoicismpod.com/members Hang out with us in our free listener community: https://link.stoicismpod.com/discord Join our daily Stoic journaling program : https://link.stoicismpod.com/journaling Join our Stoic mentoring community : https://link.stoicismpod.com/path -- View a l...
Mar 20, 2023•4 min•Season 1Ep. 111
Are you alone with a bad man? How about a bad woman? You shouldn't be! Listen to learn more about this vague advice! -- Get rid of ads and support our work : https://link.stoicismpod.com/members Hang out with us in our free listener community: https://link.stoicismpod.com/discord Join our daily Stoic journaling program : https://link.stoicismpod.com/journaling Join our Stoic mentoring community : https://link.stoicismpod.com/path -- View a list of our sponsors : https://link.stoicismpod.com/spon...
Mar 14, 2023•11 min•Season 1Ep. 110
It's time for another mailbag, baby! -- Get rid of ads and support our work : https://link.stoicismpod.com/members Hang out with us in our free listener community: https://link.stoicismpod.com/discord Join our daily Stoic journaling program : https://link.stoicismpod.com/journaling Join our Stoic mentoring community : https://link.stoicismpod.com/path -- View a list of our sponsors : https://link.stoicismpod.com/sponsors -- Visit our website : https://stoicismpod.com Check out our reading list :...
Mar 13, 2023•11 min•Season 1Ep. 109
Letter #38 from Seneca -- Get rid of ads and support our work : https://link.stoicismpod.com/members Hang out with us in our free listener community: https://link.stoicismpod.com/discord Join our daily Stoic journaling program : https://link.stoicismpod.com/journaling Join our Stoic mentoring community : https://link.stoicismpod.com/path -- View a list of our sponsors : https://link.stoicismpod.com/sponsors -- Visit our website : https://stoicismpod.com Check out our reading list : https://stoic...
Mar 07, 2023•9 min•Season 1Ep. 108
Book 1, Meditation 5. Marcus thanks Apollonius. -- Get rid of ads and support our work : https://link.stoicismpod.com/members Hang out with us in our free listener community: https://link.stoicismpod.com/discord Join our daily Stoic journaling program : https://link.stoicismpod.com/journaling Join our Stoic mentoring community : https://link.stoicismpod.com/path -- View a list of our sponsors : https://link.stoicismpod.com/sponsors -- Visit our website : https://stoicismpod.com Check out our rea...
Mar 06, 2023•9 min•Season 1Ep. 107
"Let us cease to desire that which we have been desiring. I, at least, am doing this: in my old age I have ceased to desire what I desired when a boy. To this single end my days and my nights are passed; this is my task, this the object of my thoughts, – to put an end to my chronic ills. I am endeavouring to live every day as if it were a complete life. I do not indeed snatch it up as if it were my last; I do regard it, however, as if it might even be my last." -- Get rid of ads and support our ...
Feb 28, 2023•8 min•Season 1Ep. 106
Today we’re covering meditation #4 from book #1 of Meditations and in it, we are going to hear why Marcus was thankful to Rusticus. Quintus Junius Rusticus was a Roman teacher and politician. He was probably also a grandson of Arulenus Rusticus, who was a prominent member of the Stoic Opposition. If you’ve not heard of the Stoic Opposition, boy oh boy will you be in for a treat when we get to that fireside chat. Now that you have little background on ol’ Rusticus, let’s jump into the meditation....
Feb 27, 2023•9 min•Season 1Ep. 105
Welcome back to Practical Stoicism, dear Prokopton, I’m glad you’re here. Today we’re jumping into letter 80 of Seneca’s moral letters to Lucilius. "To-day I have some free time, thanks not so much to myself as to the games, which have attracted all the bores to the boxing-match. No one will interrupt me or disturb the train of my thoughts, which go ahead more boldly as the result of my very confidence. My door has not been continually creaking on its hinges nor will my curtain be pulled aside; ...
Feb 21, 2023•11 min•Season 1Ep. 104
So today we’ll revisit Book 1 Meditation 1 to read what is defined in other places as book 1 meditation 3. Here’s that segment: "Of my mother I have learned to be religious, and bountiful; and to forbear, not only to do, but to intend any evil; to content myself with a spare diet, and to fly all such excess as is incidental to great wealth." -- Get rid of ads and support our work : https://link.stoicismpod.com/members Hang out with us in our free listener community: https://link.stoicismpod.com/...
Feb 20, 2023•10 min•Season 1Ep. 103
Letter #3 of Seneca's letters to Lucilius (link to source, below). -- Get rid of ads and support our work : https://link.stoicismpod.com/members Hang out with us in our free listener community: https://link.stoicismpod.com/discord Join our daily Stoic journaling program : https://link.stoicismpod.com/journaling Join our Stoic mentoring community : https://link.stoicismpod.com/path -- View a list of our sponsors : https://link.stoicismpod.com/sponsors -- Visit our website : https://stoicismpod.co...
Feb 14, 2023•10 min•Season 1Ep. 102
"Of him that brought me up, not to be fondly addicted to either of the two great factions of the coursers in the circus, called Prasini, and Veneti: nor in the amphitheatre partially to favour any of the gladiators, or fencers, as either the Parmularii, or the Secutores. Moreover, to endure labour; nor to need many things; when I have anything to do, to do it myself rather than by others; not to meddle with many businesses; and not easily to admit of any slander." Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 1...
Feb 13, 2023•11 min•Season 1Ep. 101
Today I'm chatting with Mitch Leventhal, President of the College of Stoic Philosophers. Learn about the history, purpose, and curriculum of the college and then consider enrolling by going to https://collegeofstoicphilosophers.org -- Get rid of ads and support our work : https://link.stoicismpod.com/members Hang out with us in our free listener community: https://link.stoicismpod.com/discord Join our daily Stoic journaling program : https://link.stoicismpod.com/journaling Join our Stoic mentori...
Feb 08, 2023•52 min•Season 1Ep. 100
Today we're diving into letter #69 of Seneca's letters to Lucilius, which begins: "I do not like you to change your headquarters and scurry about from one place to another. My reasons are, – first, that such frequent flitting means an unsteady spirit. And the spirit cannot through retirement grow into unity unless it has ceased from its inquisitiveness and its wanderings. To be able to hold your spirit in check, you must first stop the runaway flight of the body." You can find the full text of l...
Feb 07, 2023•13 min•Season 1Ep. 99
In today's episode we will be covering Meditation #1 from Book #1 of Meditations: "From my grandfather Verus: the lessons of noble character and even temper." -- Get rid of ads and support our work : https://link.stoicismpod.com/members Hang out with us in our free listener community: https://link.stoicismpod.com/discord Join our daily Stoic journaling program : https://link.stoicismpod.com/journaling Join our Stoic mentoring community : https://link.stoicismpod.com/path -- View a list of our sp...
Feb 06, 2023•12 min•Season 1Ep. 98
Register for the Justice in the Cosmopolis event on February 12th: https://as.wisdomunlocked.org Today's episode: Meditation #52 from book #4 -- Get rid of ads and support our work : https://link.stoicismpod.com/members Hang out with us in our free listener community: https://link.stoicismpod.com/discord Join our daily Stoic journaling program : https://link.stoicismpod.com/journaling Join our Stoic mentoring community : https://link.stoicismpod.com/path -- View a list of our sponsors : https://...
Feb 05, 2023•9 min•Season 1Ep. 97
Register for the Justice in the Cosmopolis event on February 12th: https://as.wisdomunlocked.org Today's episode: Meditation #51 from book #4 -- Get rid of ads and support our work : https://link.stoicismpod.com/members Hang out with us in our free listener community: https://link.stoicismpod.com/discord Join our daily Stoic journaling program : https://link.stoicismpod.com/journaling Join our Stoic mentoring community : https://link.stoicismpod.com/path -- View a list of our sponsors : https://...
Feb 05, 2023•6 min•Season 1Ep. 96
Register for the Justice in the Cosmopolis event on February 12th: https://as.wisdomunlocked.org Today's episode: Meditation #50 from book #4 -- Get rid of ads and support our work : https://link.stoicismpod.com/members Hang out with us in our free listener community: https://link.stoicismpod.com/discord Join our daily Stoic journaling program : https://link.stoicismpod.com/journaling Join our Stoic mentoring community : https://link.stoicismpod.com/path -- View a list of our sponsors : https://...
Feb 04, 2023•9 min•Season 1Ep. 95
Register for the Justice in the Cosmopolis event on February 12th: https://as.wisdomunlocked.org Today's episode: Meditation #49 from book #4 -- Get rid of ads and support our work : https://link.stoicismpod.com/members Hang out with us in our free listener community: https://link.stoicismpod.com/discord Join our daily Stoic journaling program : https://link.stoicismpod.com/journaling Join our Stoic mentoring community : https://link.stoicismpod.com/path -- View a list of our sponsors : https://...
Feb 02, 2023•10 min•Season 1Ep. 94
Meditation #48 from book #4 -- Get rid of ads and support our work : https://link.stoicismpod.com/members Hang out with us in our free listener community: https://link.stoicismpod.com/discord Join our daily Stoic journaling program : https://link.stoicismpod.com/journaling Join our Stoic mentoring community : https://link.stoicismpod.com/path -- View a list of our sponsors : https://link.stoicismpod.com/sponsors -- Visit our website : https://stoicismpod.com Check out our reading list : https://...
Feb 02, 2023•5 min•Season 1Ep. 93
Meditation #47 from book #4 -- Get rid of ads and support our work : https://link.stoicismpod.com/members Hang out with us in our free listener community: https://link.stoicismpod.com/discord Join our daily Stoic journaling program : https://link.stoicismpod.com/journaling Join our Stoic mentoring community : https://link.stoicismpod.com/path -- View a list of our sponsors : https://link.stoicismpod.com/sponsors -- Visit our website : https://stoicismpod.com Check out our reading list : https://...
Feb 01, 2023•6 min•Season 1Ep. 92
Today we introduce Seneca, perhaps the second best known Stoic writer, and certainly the one with the largest body of surviving work in the Stoic tradition. We’ve spent a year with Marcus, and we’ll continue to share him on Mondays, but you’ve been doing this long enough, you’ve learned enough, to expand your knowledge and familiarity of authors beyond just Marcus. -- Get rid of ads and support our work : https://link.stoicismpod.com/members Hang out with us in our free listener community: https...
Jan 24, 2023•14 min•Season 1Ep. 91
