Building Resilience: Stoic Practices for Overcoming Anxiety

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Stoic Morning Practice: Start Before You Feel Ready

Some mornings, nothing has gone wrong and the day already feels like too much. This guided Stoic morning practice starts from Marcus Aurelius's own argument with the bed in Meditations 5.1. Rather than manufacturing enthusiasm, you will choose one real reason to move and one obst ...  Show more

Why You Knew Better and Did It Anyway

We usually explain regret as knowing better but lacking discipline. This episode argues something more useful: in a hot state, the values on your internal scoreboard change.I connect Epictetus with hot-cold empathy gaps, self-control replication research and implementation intent ...  Show more

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