Episode description

TOPIC: Learning to shut up and relax.

This week, Dan and Merlin talk about the challenges and benefits of getting out of your own head.

Links for this episode:

• Art Museum | San Francisco | International Art Museum of America
  
• The International Art Museum of America - Museums - SoMa - San Francisco, CA - Reviews - Photos - Yelp
  
• Inside Out (2015) - IMDb
  
• Life Is Beautiful - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Why Stoicism is one of the best mind-hacks ever – Lary Wallace – Aeon
  Stoicism is, as much as anything, a philosophy of gratitude – and a gratitude, moreover, rugged enough to endure anything.
• Stoicism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  The Stoics taught that destructive emotions resulted from errors in judgment, and that a sage, or person of "moral and intellectual perfection", would not suffer such emotions.
• Stoicism | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  Stoicism is essentially a system of ethics which, however, is guided by a logic as theory of method, and rests upon physics as foundation.
• Stoicism 101: A Practical Guide for Entrepreneurs | The Blog of Author Tim Ferriss
  
• The Dalrymple Report
  
• Summer camp: Where kids grow up on their own and parents back home stay the same.
  They are moments you experienced truly for yourself. In Homesick and Happy, Michael Thompson writes about a study where people were asked about their happiest childhood memory
• The Practice of Loving-Kindness (Metta): As Taught by the Buddha in the Pali Canon
  
• Facets of Metta by Sharon Salzberg
  
• Dan's Wish List
  
• Merlin's Wishlist
  

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