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  • 231 – A Model of Thinking

    231 – A Model of Thinking

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    You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength. —Marcus Aurelius. The stoics teach us that we have control over a few things – our thoughts, our choices, and our actions. In short, our will. So is there a way that we can get better with our…

  • 230 – Our Human Contract

    230 – Our Human Contract

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    Ignorance leads to fear, fear leads to hate, and hate leads to violence. This is the equation. — Ibn Rushd Is it ever okay to hate someone as a stoic? Is there ever a time to have “righteous anger”? Today I want to talk about anger, hate and violence in our ever more divisive world.

  • 227 – Self Commitment

    227 – Self Commitment

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    How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself? —Epictetus. How often do you find yourself starting something only to notice a few weeks or months later that you let it fall by the wayside?

  • 226 – Cognitive Dissonance

    226 – Cognitive Dissonance

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    Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth. — Marcus Aurelius Why do humans resist changing their minds, even in the face of overwhelming evidence? How often have you changed your opinions when presented with new facts? How often have you actually changed your behavior…

  • 224 – To You or For You?

    224 – To You or For You?

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    It does not matter what you bear, but how you bear it. — Seneca Do you think that life just happens to you? That you are simply a pawn in the game of life? Because there are so many things that we don’t have control over in our lives, it can be easy to fall…

  • 223 – Changing Others

    223 – Changing Others

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    When someone is properly grounded in life, they shouldn’t have to look outside themselves for approval. — Epictetus. Why do we spend so much time trying to change other people or expecting that other people will change for us?

  • 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