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Practical Stoicism Archives — 309 episodes
Tenth Day of Stoic Christmas
Ninth Day of Stoic Christmas
Eighth Day of Stoic Christmas
Seventh Day of Stoic Christmas
Sixth Day of Stoic Christmas
Fifth Day of Stoic Christmas
Fourth Day of Stoic Christmas
Third Day of Stoic Christmas
Second Day of Stoic Christmas
First Day of Stoic Christmas
Is AI Slop?
A Stoic Christmas Carol
Growing Into Roles We're Not Good At Yet
Living Well on a Hot Planet [The COP30]
Gender Roles and the Rational Soul
The Stoic Blot [with Jason Pack]
Phi Curious [with Massimo Pigliucci]
What Stoicism Teaches About Courage Under Fire
How Much News Should a Stoic Consume?
Can We Stoics Take A Day Off?
The Stoic Perspective on Abortion
From Defense to War: A Stoic Response to America’s Rebrand
Can Stoics Eat Meat?
Should Stoics Care About The Environment?
What If It Actually Is My Job?
A Stoic's Perspective on Immigration (Broadly)
Rhetoric as a Method of Self-Betterment [Interview with Jay Heinrichs]
Introducing Season 3: Applied Stoicism
EGuest Interview: The Strong Stoic Podcast
Guest Interview: The Tech Stoic Podcast
Quick Update: I'm not dead!
Figs, Fate, and When to Quit (Meditations 4.6)
Fear of Death? Listen to This (Meditations 4.5)
Is Rape a Stoic Indifferent?
Even after years of practice, I still fail
Are We All Part of One Law? (Meditations 4.4)
Why "Retreating Into Yourself" Isn't Always Practical (Meditations 4.3)
Are You Living Purposefully? (Meditations 4.2)
Your Daemon, Divine Reason, and the Fire Within (Meditations 4.1)
You Might Suck, But You Don't Have To (Meditation 3.16)
Stoic Role Ethics and The Limits of Health Worship
Context is Everything (Meditations 3.15)
When Rest & Relaxation Become Vice (Mediation 3.14)
Are You Ready to Act Justly? (Meditations 3.13)
Is Inner Peace the Goal of Stoicism? (Meditation 3.12)
Feed Drop: We spend 98% of what we make—Where is it all going
Understanding Impressions in Stoicism (Meditations 3.11)
The Illusion of Free Will? (Meditations 3.10)
How Environment Shapes Moral Progress (Meditation 3.9)
What is Stoicism, really?
Why Stoicism Teaches Us to Be Prepared for Death (Meditations 3.8)
The Commitment To A Moral Life (Meditations 3.7)
Stoicism Isn’t Toxic, But Misunderstanding It Can Be (Meditations 3.6)
A Stoic’s Guide to Action (Meditations 3.5)
Are Humans Naturally Selfish? A Stoic Exploration
Choosing Your Counsel and Thoughts Wisely (Meditations 3.4)
Death and the Choice to Live Wisely (Meditations 3.3)
The Beauty on Nature's Processes (Meditations 3.2)
Why the Stoics Urge Us to Act Before Time and Reason Fade (Meditations 3.1)
Why Philosophy Is the Only True Guide Through Life (Meditations 2.17)
Five Ways to Damage the Soul (Meditations 2.16)
How Perception Shapes Reality: Stoic Insights on Framing Indifferents (Meditations 2.15)
How Stoicism Frames Life, Death, and the Importance of Living Well (Meditations 2.14)
Why Ignorance of Nature’s Law Is Life’s Greatest Tragedy (Meditations 2.13)
Accepting Mortality: Marcus Aurelius on the Purpose of Death (Meditations 2.12)
Living Without Fear: Lessons on Death & Purpose (Meditations 2.11)
Habituation and the Practice of Stoic Virtue (Meditations 2.10)
Embracing The Logic Of The Cosmos (Meditations 2.9)
Mind the business of your own mind (Meditations 2.8)
Are you focused on something useful? (Meditations 2.7)
Making morally just decisions (Meditations 2.6)
Act with precision, dignity, and love (Meditations 2.5)
How many second chances have you already wasted? (Meditations 2.4)
Change is not our enemy (Meditations 2.3)
Start paying attention, or else (Meditations 2.2)
Viewing others with compassion (Meditations 2.1)
The Reboot
The Cardinal Identity Of All Stoics
Is It UnStoic To Be Unhealthy?
Overcoming Student Pressures In The Philippines
The Self Does Not Exist
Fate Is Not Yet Written
Stoicism Isn't About Equality
EThe Stoics Were Environmentalists (Of A Kind)
EStoicism Is Not Compatible With Your Religion
Celebrating The Positive Without Ignoring The Mournful
Without The Sage Is Stoicism Broken?
Stoicism And The Job Hunt
Paternity Break Announcement (And Baby Name Reveal)
The First Philosophers
Improving Your Self-Esteem The Stoic Way [Edited]
Living And Thinking Minimally As A Stoic Who Values Simplicity
Guest Episode: Everything Everywhere Daily (The Current Roman Emperor)
Breaking Bad Habits And Habituating Good Ones
Understanding Purpose And Meaning Through Stoic Philosophy
An Hour With A. A. Long
Choosing Not To Be Angry With Others
Stoic Strategies For Dealing With Procrastination
EDealing With Our Heartbreak Stoically
Are Personality Types Helpful To Stoics?
Virtue Is Its Own Reward
3 Steps To Forgiving Others
The Balance Between Being Just And Being Nice
Philosophy Is More Than Just Stoicism And Not Just For The Grown-Ups
Pain & Death: Are These Natural To Fear?
E5 Steps To Becoming Good
Stoics Might Not Really Exist, But Prokoptôn Must
Dealing with Anger and Rage Through Physical Sport (with Michael Tremblay)
Stoicism in Practice (February '24)
EThe Biographing of Marcus Aurelius (with Donald Robertson)
Should Women Study Philosophy?
Turning Regret Into Stoic Growth
Sensual Pleasure
EVirtue And Choices In Everyday Stoicism
EThe Everywhere Soul
Beyond The Individual with Will Johncock
How To Choose Our Concerns
On Being Oikeiôtic with Prof. William Stephens
Oikeiôsis: The Stoic Opposite of Selfishness
Ego: The Stoic Perspective (Part 2)
Ego: The Stoic Perspective (Part 1)
Understanding the Daimon: Stoicism's Spiritual Compass
Stoic Compatibilism with Prof. Christopher Gill
From Complaints to Stoic Wisdom
Keeping Stoic Focus When Angry
EBeyond Circumstances: Embracing Choice in Stoic Philosophy
Character And Action In The Face Of Wrongdoing
Free Will Part Deux
Free Will: Stop Denying It
3 Things To Remember Daily
Wish To Happen What Happens
Future To Past, Quick As A Flash
I'm Banning The Dichotomy Of Control
The Difference Between Wrong and Bad
The Prokoptôn's Progress
Virtuous Cities?
If You Ought, You Kant
ERedefining Pride
Vicious Halloween Costume
Heroism Is An Indifferent
Death And Blame
SCIDA, Scooby, and Shrooms
Why Is Virtue The Only Good?
The Obstacle Isn't The Way
Can't Touch This (Hegemonikon)
Why Aren't More People Wise?
The Impossible Is Vicious
Bathe Like A Stoic
On The Corporeality of Virtue
Can Honest Stoics Be Cruel?
Find Stoic Philosophy Before Trauma Finds You
On Obedience to the Universal Will
What Is A Man's?
Remove Aversion From All Things
On Noble Aspirations
This Is A Serious Philosophy And Podcast
Introducing Epictetus
Learning How To Say No
A Formal & Material Substance
Would The Ancient Stoics Have Been Against The Mistreatment Of Animals?
The Blush of Modesty
You Cannot Sh!t In A Book
ERatios and Virtue with David Fideler
On Brawn And Brains
How Are You Using Your Soul?
Is Business The Enemy?
Have You Lifted The Veil?
Cold Showers Aren't Actually That Useful
Don't Be Disgusted With Yourself
Cheese-Eating Books
For Nature's Benefit?
On Siren Songs
Stoic Prayer
Thankless Philosophers
Grape Vines Remember Nothing
In Which I Disagree With Seneca On Love
All The Things We Can Bring About
Sweat Beats Ointment
It's All Nature, Baby
On Loving Old Age
EMarcus Isn't A Great Teacher
Fellow Patients (The Importance of Prokoptôn Friends)
Reject Disturbing Thoughts (3 Suggestions)
Being Warm Is Lame. Wake Up!
Pleasure and Joy
The Gods Did It All
Short But Good, Long But Bad
To My Father
Maximal Maximus is Maximum
After All This Time Severus?
Not Too Much, Not Too Little
Be Gracious
Someone To Watch Over You
Answer Your Texts
We Almost Died
Seneca Tragicus and Trauma
How Are You A Leader?
Seneca Will Be Watching You
Grammar Nazis Beware!
Alone With Bad Men
Let's Talk About Sextus, Baby
The Seeds Of Good Advice
Be The Same Person No Matter What
Be Ready And Willing To Die
A Rusticus For The Rest Of Us
Vapidity vs. Virtue
Mamma Aurelius
Do You Have Friends? Real Ones?
Be Thoughtful And Do Your Own Work
EThe College of Stoic Philosophers with Mitch Leventhal
Choose a sanctuary, then stay put
An Even Temper, Especially In Conflict
Keep It Simple, Baby
When Your Death Is Required Of You
Don't Let Well-Intentioned People Hold You Back
Crashing Waves To The Face
What Do I Do With My Life? This!
Dying Regret-Free
On Saving Time
Wake up Sheeple!
It's Relationships All The Way Down
Stoic Journaling with Brittany Polat
Delighted? Vexed? You Fool!
Carpé Momentum?
(I Think) Epictetus Was Wrong About Books
This One Is Political
Not For The Sake Of The Husk
The Magical Universe Panda of the Stoics
The Only Evil Faculty Is Your Own
When Is Violence Appropriate?
Spy on the Wise
EIt's All On You
The Universal Constant
Memory Rethought
Amor Paddle
Most Are Forgotten Immediately
Wasting Our Lives Is Not Our Right
Money and Possessions Be Damned
Bookless, Breadless, and Threadless
EStoic Evangalist
Black Characters and Sheepish Dispositions
An Orderly Cosmos, or Nah?
Hey, Over Here!
Used Philosophy Dealership
Doing Less, Leaning Uniquely
All Outcomes Are Fruit
Maintaining Your Faculties and Soothing the Faculty
Soul Saturation Point
Beauty Is Not Beheld
Living Well
Dare to Care with Sharon Lebell
Lame Fame
Which Sort of Stoic are You?
Don't Be Vicious
Death Hangs Over Thee
Become a God in Ten Days
Human Sameness
Universal Transmogrification
Do You Have Reason? Then Use It.
Two Rules To Live By
Maintain Objective Sight
Love Thy Fate
Indifference
Bulletproof Self
Stoic Masculinity vs. Alpha Male Masculinity
Opinions Cause Us Harm
Stoicism and Psychoanalysis with Donald Robertson
Be Not An Empty Husk
No Shame in Death
Stoic or Not, We Are One
Change is Eternal
Inner and Outer Sanctums
Your Pavilion of Virtue
Death, Dying, and Seneca with James Romm
Wisdom is Wisdom, No Matter How Old
Good Humans Accept So They Can Help
Your Mind's Eye Adds Color
Throw Away Your Books
Your Philosophical Tackle Box
The Task At Hand
Clean Your Windows
A Mote of Dust
Are You Still Paying Attention?
Strive For The Ideal, Don't Expect It
Be Consistent In Who You Are
Don't Make Room For Anything Else
How To Act
Listen To Some, But Not Most
Death Is Either An Eternal Rest Or A Familiar New World
Even Inadvertence is Beautiful
Our Minds May Fail us
Summarizing Human Life
Don't degrade yourself by not having a purpose
Ascending to Untrue Impressions
The Present Moment
The wretchedness of gossip and busybodies
Skeletons wear no crowns
We have the tools we need to avoid all permanent harm to our lives
Failure is failure, and it's expected along the path
Do not forget these 5 things
Habituate the practice of minding your mind
Training yourself to pay attention
Respecting yourself is more important than how others perceive you
Deep work is a 2300-year-old stoic principle
You are going to die
Learn to love that which is natural
Keeping your mortality and temporality ever in mind
Deal with surly people as if they were yourself
Coffee Mugs, Loss, and Death