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The Steady Path
Clarity, perspective, and the quiet art of living deliberately in a noisy world. The Steady Path is a weekly pause for thought. It's about life: the decisions we make, the stories we tell ourselves, the things we chase, and the things we miss along the way. Each episode blends the timeless wisdom of the Stoics — Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus — with the films and music that shaped a 1980s childhood. So expect a line from Marcus Aurelius sitting comfortably beside one from Ferris Bueller…
Episodes
- The Steady Path
Episode 16 - There Are No Shortcuts
The shortcut is never offered as a shortcut — it’s offered as being clever. The tip, the three-week diet, the executive invented in a lift. But the things that…
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Episode 15 - Hope Is a Practice
There are two kinds of hope. One waits for the future to rescue you — and the Stoics were right that it walks in step with fear: hope the market recovers, and…
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Episode 14 - Till the Fight Is Done
Persistence has an image problem. The films give you the montage; real life gives you a wet Tuesday. Persistence isn’t the dramatic push — it’s the unglamorous…
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Episode 13 - Rich or Wealthy?
Ask anybody whether rich and wealthy are different and they’ll say yes — then go quiet when you ask how. The words began in different places. Rich is Old…
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Episode 12 - On a Mission
We use ‘mission’ for anything we would quite like to do, and the word has gone soft. The dictionary is stricter: a specific task with which a person is…
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Episode 11 - Practising Gratitude
Gratitude is a practice: done on purpose, whether or not you feel like it, with the feeling arriving afterwards as a consequence. This episode is about doing…
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Bonus Episode 03 - The Last Mile
Frodo fails. At the Cracks of Doom, with the whole journey behind him, he does not throw the Ring in — and Tolkien said it was not a moral failure, that…
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Bonus Episode 02 - The Weight You Carry
The Ring was made by Sauron to control everybody else, and its cleverest trick is that it does not need what is worst about you. Very often it gets in through…
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Bonus Episode 01 - Dragon Sickness: What Holding On Costs
This is the first of 3 bonus episodes celebrating Hobbit Day. One pile of gold, and Tolkien shows what it does to everyone who touches it. Thrór — Thorin’s…
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Episode 10: The Stories We Tell Ourselves
There is a voice in your head that has been running so long, and speaks with such casual authority, that most of us never stop to ask who it is or whether it…
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Episode 09: The Joy of Small Things
The bigger-better-more story is, on quiet reflection, mostly nonsense. The small things — the morning coffee, the dog, the walk before anyone needs anything…
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Episode 08: The Art of Presence
In Field of Dreams, Ray Kinsella bulldozes his livelihood to build a baseball diamond — and in the last scene discovers that one of the young players is his…
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Episode 07: Planning Your Adventure
In The Goonies, a gang of kids find a 350-year-old pirate map in an attic and — unlike every sensible adult in town — decide to believe it. Napoleon Hill wrote…
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Episode 06: The Power of Routine
In The Karate Kid, Mr Miyagi has Daniel wax the car and paint the fence for days — then reveals he'd been wiring in the muscle memory for karate all along…
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Episode 05: The Myth of Urgency
Almost everything that shouts for your attention is urgent. Almost nothing that shapes your life is. Eisenhower spotted the trap; Stephen Covey turned it into…
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Episode 04: The Comparison Trap
In the age of the highlights reel, the thief never sleeps. The most expensive thing on your phone is not the data plan — it is the running scoreboard you never…
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Episode 03: How Much Is Enough?
Spinal Tap’s amplifier famously went up to eleven — and so, quietly, does most of modern life: always one more notch, and never a moment to ask why. The…
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Episode 02: Attention Is Your Life
Every app on your phone has been engineered by some of the cleverest people alive to capture one thing: your attention. And almost none of us could say where…
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Episode 01: Why The Steady Path Exists
Life moves pretty fast — as Ferris Bueller warned — and most of us never stop to look around. Strip away the noise, the headlines and the relentless forward…