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When Your Mind Runs Wild: 5 Stoic Tools to Stop Anxiety

When Your Mind Runs Wild: 5 Stoic Tools to Stop Anxiety

Ambition and calm can look identical from the outside: a young conqueror cuts a supposedly unbreakable knot and later spends seven months building a causeway in seawater. Which of those moments is the real lesson in leadership - the audacious cut or the patient construction - and what does that choice reveal about control, duty, and virtue?

In this episode, we follow a sequence of decisions from Alexander the Great’s early campaigns to explore whether deliberate virtue or raw instinct drove his actions. We trace the Gordian Knot, the…

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