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The Stoic Handbook with Jon Brooks
You've read the books. You know what Marcus Aurelius would do. But when life gets hard, the philosophy disappears. This podcast is for people who want to close the gap between knowing Stoicism and actually living it. New episodes weekly. Start with the free 7-Day Stoic Challenge: https://www.stoicchallenge.co/?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=show-description&utm_content=global
Episodes
The Stoic Handbook with Jon BrooksReading Books is a Bad Way to Learn
I read a lot, so it feels strange to say this, but reading books is a poor way to actually learn something. Exposure to ideas is not the same as living them…
The Stoic Handbook with Jon BrooksOvercoming Pornography Addiction
A Stoic Handbook reader wrote in about pornography addiction, and I do my best to give it the careful answer it deserves. It is a nuanced subject and I try not…
The Stoic Handbook with Jon BrooksWork/Life Balance is an Illusion
Work-life balance gets talked about as if it were a fixed point you could reach and hold. I think that framing sets us up to fail. In this one I share how I…
The Stoic Handbook with Jon BrooksThe Stoic 60-Minute Power Hour Routine
One of the prompts in my morning writing is simple: what three things will make up my power hour? It is the question that decides whether a day actually moves…
The Stoic Handbook with Jon BrooksThe Complete View From Above Stoic Meditation
Have you ever had a moment that made it suddenly obvious how much of what you worry about does not matter? For me it was the instant my son was born. The view…
The Stoic Handbook with Jon BrooksGuided Meditation: Seneca's Stoic Evening Reflection
Each night, once the house had gone quiet, Seneca would go back over his whole day, what he had done and said, hiding nothing from himself. This guided…
The Stoic Handbook with Jon BrooksThe Complete Stoic Morning Meditation
This is a Stoic contemplation to settle into each morning before the day gets hold of you. It draws on Marcus Aurelius and his practice of premeditation of…
The Stoic Handbook with Jon BrooksStoicism is Not a Dead Philosophy
Someone pointed me to a Tucker Max tweet calling Stoicism a dead philosophy, backed by a study suggesting that a naive endorsement of Stoic ideology might…
The Stoic Handbook with Jon BrooksMeditation: End of the World Premeditation
In this guided meditation you will imagine an apocalyptic scene, the end of the world, as a way of bringing your most important values sharply into focus. It…
The Stoic Handbook with Jon BrooksSeneca On The Value of Past Hardship
Seneca used the image of a fighter to make his point about hardship. The boxer who has never been hit cannot enter the ring with real confidence. The one who…
The Stoic Handbook with Jon BrooksMeditation: How To Mentally Rehearse Plans
In Chapter 4 of the Enchiridion, Epictetus lays out a simple three-step way of making plans, one that keeps you steady whether things go your way or not. This…
The Stoic Handbook with Jon BrooksMeditation: The Dichotomy of Control Training
The first chapter of Epictetus and his handbook deals with the dichotomy of control: the line between what is up to us and what is not. This meditation is a…
The Stoic Handbook with Jon BrooksMeditation: The Complete Stoic Death Contemplation
Death is natural and inevitable, neither good nor bad in itself. What causes us so much anxiety is the judgement we lay on top of it. This is the full guided…