***In these book reviews I will review books by Stoic authors or books that I have read containing powerful lessons on resilience, and the Stoic virtues. I try to write these spoiler free. If you like these reviews please consider supporting the authors and buy their books! I first heard about Chris Duffin while listening …
“For every individual, the whole complex business of living, this whole fascinating, agonizing, thrilling, boring, reassuring and frightening business, with all its moments of simple peace and complex turmoil, will someday, inescapably, end.” — Ernest Becker Recommended reading: Ernest Becker’s Unflinching Examination of How the Fear of Death is Secretly Controlling Your Life ***A …
I’ve occasionally come across the view that if you consider yourself a Stoic, you should only study Stoic texts, without learning from other philosophies. While this could be useful if you are studying Stoicism from an academic perspective, I feel that if you want to apply it to your daily life, you should be open …
These are blogs, channels, podcasts, and communities that I have learned from and regularly recommend to others. I’ve been following some of these for many years, some almost a decade. Others I no longer follow but did earlier in my journey with philosophy. I have included these because we are all on different parts of …
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Hi. My name is Rubi. Stoic philosophy is something that my wife and I in our own little way have been trying to incorporate into our life over the last few years. It’s a life long journey but the more we have implemented practices or ideas into our lives the happier we’ve been. Minimalism is …
Many people think that minimalism is just about reducing and downsizing but it’s not mindless reducing — it’s reducing with a purpose, and that purpose can be to make the things that you have, which do have meaning to you and bring them to the foreground of your consciousness. Or to make room for new …
“Some of the best persuasion techniques I have ever seen, and he was REALLY good…If you are interested in persuasion, listen to Mark McCloskey use visual story persuasion, contrast, pacing, social proof, and more. Incredibly talented.” I’ve been listening to the Coffee With Scott Adams podcast for over two years, and it is not an …
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