Stoic Coffee Break

Author: Erick

  • 219 – Acceptance of Others

    219 – Acceptance of Others

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    When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: the people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. They are like this because they can’t tell good from evil. — Marcus Aurelius Amor Fati is the acceptance and the embracing of your fate, or what life brings your way.…

  • 218 – Accept Yourself

    218 – Accept Yourself

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    One of the hardest things for us to do, though it is one of the most important things we will ever learn, is to accept ourselves for exactly who we are.

  • 217 – Interview With Donald J. Robertson

    217 – Interview With Donald J. Robertson

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    An interview with Donald J. Robertson about his new graphic novel about Marcus Aurelius called Verissimus. We talk about all kinds of stoic history and the politics of his day.

  • 216 – Give yourself fully to your endeavors

    216 – Give yourself fully to your endeavors

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    Forget everything else. Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. —Marcus Aurelius Don’t let fear, low self-esteem and the negative voices hold you back from your true destiny. —David Goggins

  • 215 – The Space Between

    215 – The Space Between

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    “When force of circumstance upsets your equanimity, lose no time in recovering your self-control, and do not remain out of tune longer than you can help. Habitual recurrence to the harmony will increase your mastery of it.” ― Marcus Aurelius

  • 214 – Embody Your Philosophy

    214 – Embody Your Philosophy

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    Don’t explain your philosophy. Embody it. — Epictetus. The hardest thing about any philosophy is being able to apply what you learn in real life. We can read all the books, watch all the videos, follow all the gurus, but until we actually apply what we’ve learned, all of that learning is worthless.

  • 213 – Think Long

    213 – Think Long

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    “Everyone faces up more bravely to a thing for which he has long prepared himself, sufferings, even, being withstood if they have been trained for in advance. Those who are unprepared, on the other hand, are panic-stricken by the most insignificant happenings.” — Seneca When you’re in the midst of a challenge it’s really hard…

  • 212 – Friction

    212 – Friction

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    “Anxieties can only come from your internal judgement.” — Marcus Aurelius We all have things in our lives that seems to stop us from completing things that we really want to do. Often, these things aren’t even all that big but end up being show stoppers nonetheless. Today I want to talk about why it’s…

  • 211 – Toxic Positivity

    211 – Toxic Positivity

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    “To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.” ― Seneca Life is never meant to be kittens and rainbows. A good portion of our life is going to sadness, disappointment, and failure. In this episode, I want…

  • 209 – Privilege

    209 – Privilege

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    “One cannot pursue one’s own highest good without at the same time necessarily promoting the good of others.” — Epictetus What kind of privileges have you had in your life? Do you recognize the advantages that you have enjoyed? In this episode I want to talk about privilege, and how the stoics encourage us to…