Marcus Aurelius Was Terrible at Stoicism

Marcus Aurelius Was Terrible at Stoicism

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Are You Using Stoicism to Numb Out? | with Erick Cloward

Stoicism is meant to help you master your emotions. There's a version of it that just teaches you to avoid them.In this conversation I joined Erick Cloward on the Stoic Coffee Break to talk about "stoic bypassing" (Jules Evans' term): using the philosophy to suppress hard feeling ...  Show more

Marcus Aurelius Morning Preparation: Stoic Affirmations from the Meditations

During the 170s of the common era, while ruling an empire and often away from Rome, Marcus Aurelius wrote notes to himself in Greek. What survived is not a public book. It is a private notebook, the Meditations, sentences a man wrote to remind himself how to live.This is a short ...  Show more

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