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Why Genuine Kindness Is Irresistible
Season 1 Episode 234
This episode reflects on the power of everyday kindness—the remembered question, the use of someone’s name, the simple act of inclusion that makes a …
6 months, 4 weeks ago
What Is There to Fear? What Is There to Do?
Season 1 Episode 233
This episode centres on a question from Epictetus: what is there to fear?
By focusing only on what’s truly within our control—our choices and characte…
7 months ago
What Stoicism Looks Like in Public and in Private
Season 1 Episode 232
This episode follows Epictetus’s vivid portrait of Diogenes the Cynic—a philosopher who lived as a “spy” on false values, exposing how little we trul…
7 months, 1 week ago
Why Good People Suffer
Season 1 Episode 231
This episode tackles one of life’s most enduring questions: why do misfortunes so often strike those who seem least deserving of them?
Drawing on Sene…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Don’t Lose Today in the Trap of Tomorrow
Season 1 Episode 230
This episode explores how expectation quietly robs us of the only time we ever truly have: today.
Through a wry story from John O’Donohue and Seneca’…
7 months, 4 weeks ago
The Stoic Morning: Poems To Wake Up To
Season 1 Episode 229
This episode is a quiet pause at the start of the day—a meditation on mornings as gifts rather than obligations.
Drawing on Stoic gratitude and four …
8 months ago
When Escape Isn't Possible, Acceptance Is The Way
Season 1 Episode 228
This episode examines a quietly radical insight: that much of our suffering comes not from pain itself, but from our attempt to escape it.
Drawing a …
8 months, 1 week ago
You'll Never Be Perfect, And That's Just Fine
Season 1 Episode 227
This episode reframes Stoicism not as a quest for unreachable perfection, but as a practice of steady progress.
Drawing on the ancient idea of the pr…
8 months, 2 weeks ago
People Over Things: The Urgency of Today
Season 1 Episode 226
This episode reflects on how awareness of mortality sharpens our sense of what truly matters, through the unforgettable lesson Randy Pausch taught wi…
8 months, 3 weeks ago
We Suffer Most in Our Imagination
Season 1 Episode 225
This episode explores the Stoic art of decatastrophizing—learning to meet fear by stripping events down to what they really are, rather than what our…
9 months ago