Antifragile

You shout at us, we listen! It's already time for excellent, complex critique from the sophisticated listener. Although when life gives you lemons, you just have to pull your socks up and let the lemonade flow, so in the absence of a sophisticated voice we navigate merely what is within our control. Why should you develop your concept of self, when it's a tiny toy sailboat being blown by the hurricanes of Mother Nature? We have answers, three of them. The first involves hypothetical quantum physics, the second is totally relatable, real and now, and the third goes back over 2000 years to Stoic philosophy, in order to explore how the problems you face in your life today are timeless aspects of the evolved human condition.The fundamental purpose of mindfulness, Flow, CBT, psychoanalysis and philosophy, is to make you "antifragile" when you face up to the thrashing forces of life throughout the awful burden of existence. These forces cannot destroy your inner citadel, the conscious experience that is all you can control, so we present some inspiration to help you fight the dragon of chaos.If you want to contact the show, sail your tiny boat to www.privatepracticepodcast.net and dock up on the ‘Contact Us’ page. And if you're interested in learning about Stoicism, here are the sources referenced in the episode:'Happy' by Derren Brown (in spite of that title)'The Daily Stoic' by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman'The Happiness Hypothesis: Putting Ancient Wisdom to the Test of Modern Science' by Jonathan Haidt'The Modern Stoic' series by Voices in the Dark https://voicesinthedark.world/modern-stoic/And if you're convinced that you're superior to a plastic cup, you can experience your beliefs blossom as you hit them with a copy of 'Antifragile' by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.