How to Handle Difficult People: Stoic Strategies, Empathy vs. Compassion, and Communication Techniques

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The Stoic Vault: What I Built and Why

Send us a textAbout two years ago, I hit a wall.I'd been teaching Stoicism for years. Writing about it. Making podcasts about it. And I was still losing my temper. Still spiraling over emails. Still lying awake replaying conversations.I knew the philosophy cold. And I couldn't ap ...  Show more

What the Stoics Actually Meant by Practice

Send us a textEpictetus didn't write books. He ran a school where students lived for years, practicing responses to insults, hardship, and loss. Marcus Aurelius wrote the Meditations as a daily training regimen—the same ideas, over and over, drilling them into his reflexes. Senec ...  Show more

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