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#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 …
3 years 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…
3 years 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…
3 years, 1 month 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…
3 years, 1 month 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…
3 years, 1 month 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…
3 years, 1 month 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…
3 years, 2 months ago
#273 - "Nobody Gets Away With Anything, Ever"
What if the best thing that you can do for yourself is to do things for others? Certainly, that’s the “virtue is the only good” argument, to a large …
3 years, 2 months ago
#272 - What is Life Really About?
What is life really about? This is perhaps one of the most fundamental questions of philosophy. The Stoics have a simple enough answer: virtue. Peopl…
3 years, 2 months ago
#271 - Ian C. Williams: Vulnerability, Fact, Truth, Reason, & Identity
Ian C. Williams is an author, speaker, and business advisor. He has a Master’s in Public Affairs (MPA) with an emphasis in Leadership Strategy and Or…
3 years, 2 months ago