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#52 - Meditations Book 9: How to Deepen Your Rest & Sharpen Your Focus Like a Stoic, Marcus's Bedtime Stories & Is There Life After TikTok?

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This episode took us a year to make... Well, at least it is the byproduct of a year focused on focus and rest for Bruce. If you read between the lines of Meditations Book 9 you'll find …

Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago

#51 - On The Shortness of Life (New Years Special) - Bruce’s Breakup & New Startup, 2 Week Justins, The 2024 Aurelis Award Show, & The Sacredness of Time

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As is now Modern Meditations tradition we ended 2024 with reading Seneca’s “On The Shortness of Life” and sat down for a chat about how we did with this year that is not coming back. 

We…

Published on 8 months, 1 week ago

#50 - On Being a Citizen of The World (Audio Essays)

Episode 50

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On the 50th episode of Modern Meditations we break our format to give you two audio essays that changed our views on what it means to be a citizen of the world. In Meditations we read, …

Published on 8 months, 4 weeks ago

#49 - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Book 9 (Audiobook Reading)

Season 4 Episode 49

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Experience Stoic literature first-hand by listening directly to the audiobook of Mediations by Marcus Aurelius. 

Book 9 of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius contains absolute banger quotes …

Published on 9 months, 1 week ago

#48 - Meditations Book 8: The Why Were You Born-isode, Gradual Coherence, Do You Find Meaning or Does Meaning Find You and the Parable of the Turkey Cult

Season 4 Episode 48

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Discussing Book 8 of Marcus Aurelius' meditations is not for those unready to face the existential dread of facing themselves and what they were born to do... Are you? 

We start with a f…

Published on 9 months, 1 week ago

#47 - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Book 8 (Audiobook Reading)

Season 4 Episode 47

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Experience Stoic literature first-hand by listening directly to the audiobook of Mediations by Marcus Aurelius. 

Book 8 of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius contains absolute banger quotes …

Published on 10 months ago

#46 - The Deathisode

Season 4 Episode 46

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Happy Halloween! What a perfect time to discuss death! On this spooky holiday we open with Data asking Picard to grant him a gift... mortality. We discuss how we deal with mortality and…

Published on 10 months, 3 weeks ago

#45 - Meditations Book 7: How Much Does Happiness Cost? Instagram Life vs The Simple Life, The Happiest Man in the World, Elon Musk's Life Algorithm & Autotelic activities

Season 4 Episode 45

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Can we just say, "What a chapter?!" Book 7 has many riveting themes, including... Simplicity!

Marcus says, "Always bear this in mind; and another thing too, that very little indeed is n…

Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago

#44 - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius Book 7 (Audiobook Reading)

Season 4 Episode 44

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Book 7 of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius focuses on Stoic themes like living in harmony with nature, accepting the impermanence of life, and the importance of rationality. 

Marcus consid…

Published on 1 year ago

#43 - Meditations Book 6: To Move From One Unselfish Act to Another, Why You Don’t Exist, Big Mind vs Small Mind, Can You Have Two Souls? & Koans

Season 4 Episode 43

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Your favorite Stoic podcast is back, as we work our way through Meditations Book 6 which is all about the unself. Marcus makes quite the claim in this chapter that “The only rewards of …

Published on 1 year ago