Podcast Episodes

Kindness: The Most Powerful Drug in the World

Season 1 Episode 254

This episode explores conversation and kindness as forms of care for the soul.

Socrates saw dialogue as essential to self-knowledge, a way of bringin…

2 months, 1 week ago

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How to Live When Life Is Short

Season 1 Episode 253

This episode reflects on the shortness of life without turning it into panic.

Oliver Burkeman’s “four thousand weeks” gives us a blunt measure of our…

2 months, 2 weeks ago

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See Clearly, Act Well, Accept the Rest

Season 1 Episode 252

This episode explains Epictetus’s three disciplines as a practical way of returning to the present moment.

The Discipline of Assent helps us judge cle…

2 months, 3 weeks ago

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Live Your Philosophy Before Time Runs Out

Season 1 Episode 251

This episode uses the thought of a “last day” to test the distance between our values and our actions.

Montaigne, Seneca, and Lucretius show how refle…

3 months ago

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When More Becomes Too Much

Season 1 Episode 250

This episode looks at how the chase for novelty and the habit of overextension both unsettle the mind.

Cicero reminds us that possessions and technol…

3 months, 1 week ago

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Don’t Pray for Easier Homework

Season 1 Episode 249

This episode treats life’s difficulties as assignments rather than interruptions.

Epictetus reminds us that we don’t get to choose every task Fortune…

3 months, 2 weeks ago

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How to Bend Without Breaking

Season 1 Episode 248

This episode explores the Stoic partnership between foresight and acceptance.

Preparing for setbacks doesn’t mean expecting misery—it means building …

3 months, 3 weeks ago

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Your Bonus Life Begins Now

Season 1 Episode 247

This episode explores gratitude as a Stoic practice, emphasizing the transformative power of attention.

By imagining what we might have already lost—…

3 months, 4 weeks ago

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Live Like a Philosopher

Season 1 Episode 246

This episode returns philosophy to its ancient meaning: not something merely studied, but something lived.

Pierre Hadot shows that figures like Marcu…

4 months ago

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Your Attention Is Your Life

Season 1 Episode 245

This episode examines the attention we surrender to screens, busyness, and distraction.

Eric Pickersgill’s phone-free photographs reveal how strange o…

4 months, 1 week ago

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