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#283 - Meditation: It's Simpler Than You Think
Episode 283
Meditation: what it is, why it's important, and the foundations of the practice.
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2 years, 8 months ago
#282 - Moving Forward Amongst Imperfection
Episode 282
Progress is no simple thing. It requires knowing where you are, where you want to go, and developing a plan for how to get from where you are to wher…
2 years, 8 months ago
#281 - The Story We Tell Ourselves
Episode 281
The human mind is designed around stories. We tell each other stories to convey lessons, for entertainment, and many other reasons. And we think abou…
2 years, 8 months ago
#280 - Lessons From 1 Year of Ice Baths
Episode 280
An ice bath is when you submerge yourself into near-freezing waters for a certain amount of time. There has been much hype on ice baths, popularized …
2 years, 8 months ago
#279 - Practicing Detachment (and Why It's Important)
Episode 279
Detachment is a confusing and often poorly-understood aspect of Stoicism. It's generally used to discuss detachment from material possessions and rel…
2 years, 8 months ago
#278 - How to Be Strong But Not Brittle
Episode 278
Strength I define as the ability to resist. The resistance takes many forms – it can take the form of a weight, for example. It can also take the for…
2 years, 9 months ago
#277 - Can We Handle the Truth?
Episode 277
Dostoevsky explored many interesting, sometimes even contradictory, ideas in his novels. An existentialist Christian, he certainly philosophized much…
2 years, 9 months ago
#276 - "Don't seek to have events happen as you wish"
Episode 276
In this episode, I breakdown the Epictetus quote: 'Don't seek to have events happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do happen, and all w…
2 years, 9 months ago
#275 - Navigating Nihilistic Tendencies
Nihilism states that there is no meaning to life, and that nothing you do really matters. The existentialists have an answer for how to deal with tha…
2 years, 10 months ago
#274 - Having Possessions Without Attachment
The Western culture is ripe with materialism. We crave new trendy clothes, the latest iPhone, the newest car, the biggest house - the list is never-e…
2 years, 10 months ago