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Caleb, MichaelBecome more Stoic. Build resilience and virtue with ancient philosophy.
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Excellence Is Boring (Episode 227)
What makes some people excellent at their craft and others just average? Michael walks through a classic 1989 sociology paper on Olympic swimmers and pulls out three lessons that apply directly to Stoic practice.
The answer is not what mos...
Transformation through subtraction
The project of self-improvement is often framed as one of addition. Adding habits, virtues.The metaphor of building character suggests laying one brick on another.
The other nearby metaphor is of getting on the right path, sticking to it....
Seneca the Wordsmith
Today’s letter is adapted from the Stoa course Lessons from Lives of the Stoics. Check it out on the Stoa app.
Seneca saw emperors come and go. At one point, he was rumored to be the richest man in all of Rome. Despite a life of pol...
Caleb's Life Philosophy (Episode 226)
What’s the core of Stoicism worth keeping? And where does it fall short?
Caleb shares his life philosophy in this companion to Michael’s earlier episode. He builds the case for Stoicism from the ground up, then turns it on itself. If happi...
The Beginning of Philosophy
Someone once said:
To feel shame is to approach courage.
Shame for the Stoics involves failing to live up to our ideal. When we feel it, we notice the difference between who we are and who we could be.
Seneca approvingly quotes Epicuru...
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