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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius - Book 4, Meditation 18
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius - Book 4, Meditation 17
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Our monthly Listener AMA. Thanks for the questions! Submit yours below to get into the queue!
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius - Book 4, Meditation 16
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius - Book 4, Meditation 15
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius - Book 4, Meditation 14
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius - Book 4, Meditation 13
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"My name is Kai Whiting. I am a researcher and lecturer in sustainability and Stoicism based at the Université Catholique de Louvain, Belgium. My main research interests are how to better account for resource use and the practical application of Stoic philosophy to the challenges of the 21st century. My background is Environmental Engineering, but I recognise that without philosophy we will never understand the “why” we do what we do, which is why I combine both disciplines in my approach." Purchase Kai's Book: https://amzn.to/3NTUDQm Kai's Stoic Mentorship: https://thewalledgarden.com/mentoring -- Become a Premium Subscriber and get rid of ads: https://stoicism/supercast.com Submit a Question for next month's Q&A: https://link.stoicismpod.com/ama Join the Text Chain by clicking here: https://slkt.io/WxDx Purchase and Review my book "Practical Stoicism" on Amazon : https://link.stoicismpod.com/book -- Review this podcast on Apple Podcasts : https://link.stoicismpod.com/apple Review this podcast on Spotify Podcasts : https://link.stoicismpod.com/spotify Review this Podcast on Podchaser : https://link.stoicismpod.com/podchaser -- The book I read these meditations from : https://amzn.to/3OoDSfH Reach out to me with questions or thoughts : tanner@tannerhelps.com -- Athletic Greens is going to give you a FREE 1 year supply of immune-supporting Vitamin D AND 5 FREE travel packs with your first purchase. All you have to do is visit http://athleticgreens.com/practical -- Skip the waitlist at http://masterworks.com by using promo code "practical stoicism". See important Regulation A disclosures at https://masterworks.com/cd. Average net returns/Net IRR" reflects annualized return on investment, net of all fees and expenses. Past performance is not indicative of future results. -- Sign up today at https://butcherbox.com/practical and use code PRACTICAL to get Free Ribeyes for a Year plus $10 off. That’s https://butcherbox.com/practical and use code PRACTICAL to get this special Black Friday deal -- Grab your EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal by going to https://nordvpn.com/stoicism to get up a Huge Discount off your NordVPN Plan + 4 months for free! It’s completely risk free with Nord’s 30 day money-back guarantee! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius - Book 4, Meditation 12
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius - Book 4, Meditation 11
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius - Book 4, Meditation 10
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius - Book 4, Meditation 9
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Healthy Masculinity vs Toxic Masculinity; don't let the topic put you off, I promise you've not heard this before.
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius - Book 4, Meditation 8
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Today I'm having a friendly discussion with Donald Robertson, author of the book "How to Think Like a Roman Emperor" and the new graphic novel "Verissimus" (illustrated by talented Portuguese artist Zé Nuno Fraga), about Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and all sorts of other things I didn't necessarily expect. Donald was traveling so the audio on his end is a bit poor, but the discussion, I hope, will more than make of up for it. Enjoy! Donald's Graphic Novel "Verissimus" : https://amzn.to/3Wxybk4 Donald's Book "How to Think Like a Roman Emperor" : https://amzn.to/3Uls14U -- Subscribe to the Ad-Free Version: https://stoicism.supercast.com Submit a Question for next month's Q&A: https://link.stoicismpod.com/ama Join the Text Chain by clicking here: https://slkt.io/WxDx Purchase and Review my book "Practical Stoicism" on Amazon : https://link.stoicismpod.com/book -- Review this podcast on Apple Podcasts : https://link.stoicismpod.com/apple Review this podcast on Spotify Podcasts : https://link.stoicismpod.com/spotify Review this Podcast on Podchaser : https://link.stoicismpod.com/podchaser -- The source I read these meditations from : http://classics.mit.edu/Antoninus/meditations.html Reach out to me with questions or thoughts : tanner@tannerhelps.com Amazon links are affiliate links
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius - Book 4, Meditation 4
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius - Book 4, Meditation 6
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(I said book two in the recording, but it is Book 4) The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius - Book 4, Meditation 5
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The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius - Book 4, Meditation 4
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Today I sit down for a friendly discussion with Ranjay Gulati of Harvard Business School. We talk about finding purpose in work, why it is critical, and how we might be able to do it. "Ranjay Gulati is the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor at Harvard Business School. Professor Gulati studies how “resilient” organizations – those that prosper both in good times and bad – drive growth and profitability. His work bridges strategy, organizational design, and leadership. In his new book Deep Purpose, Gulati shows how some companies must embed purpose much more deeply than most, treating it as a radically new operating system for the enterprise." To learn more about Ranjay, please visit his website: https://ranjaygulati.com -- Become a Premium Subscriber and get rid of ads: https://stoicism/supercast.com Submit a Question for next month's Q&A: https://link.stoicismpod.com/ama Join the Text Chain by clicking here: https://slkt.io/WxDx Purchase and Review my book "Practical Stoicism" on Amazon : https://link.stoicismpod.com/book -- Review this podcast on Apple Podcasts : https://link.stoicismpod.com/apple Review this podcast on Spotify Podcasts : https://link.stoicismpod.com/spotify Review this Podcast on Podchaser : https://link.stoicismpod.com/podchaser -- The book I read these meditations from : https://amzn.to/3OoDSfH Reach out to me with questions or thoughts : tanner@tannerhelps.com
Book 4, Meditation 3
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In this episode I will take a deep dive in order to answer a listener question about Stoic alignment with nature. This will necessitate that I talk about the cosmology and physics of Stoicism.
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In this episode we will read and reflect upon the second meditation of Book 4.
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Many listeners have written in expressing difficulty in accepting death and reframing it as the Stoics framed it. So, in today's episode, I speak with Professor of Classics at Bard University and author of "How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life" and "Dying Every Day, Seneca at the Court of Nero." During our conversation, James shares much about Seneca's life with me, and much about why overcoming death is critical to living a good life. We also discuss the concept of "dying well."
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In this episode we will read and reflect upon the first meditation of Book 4.
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In this week's Wednesday episode I'll be doing an AMA style to answer some recurring listener questions I get in my inbox.
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In this week's episode we'll be reading and going over the sixteenth and final meditation from Book Three of The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.
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Today I speak with Kieran Setiya, author of Life is Hard and Professor of Philosophy at MIT. Kieran and I discuss topics such as death, loneliness, comparison, and the general utility of philosophy.
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Quick correction: I misname Gregory Hays as George Hays (probably because I was referencing George Long right before recording this episode). Forgive me. In this week's episode we'll be reading and going over the fifteenth meditation from Book Three of The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. -- Subscribe to the ad-free and preamble-free, AMA-enabled version of this podcast here: https://stoicism.supercast.com -- Join the free listener text chain by texting "stoicism" to 833-943-3564 or, while on your phone, just click here. -- Purchase and Review my book "Practical Stoicism" on Amazon : https://link.stoicismpod.com/book -- Review this podcast on Apple Podcasts : https://link.stoicismpod.com/apple Review this podcast on Spotify Podcasts : https://link.stoicismpod.com/spotify Review this Podcast on Podchaser : https://link.stoicismpod.com/podchaser -- The book I read these meditations from : https://amzn.to/3OoDSfH Reach out to me with questions or thoughts : tanner@tannerhelps.com
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In this week's episode we'll be reading and going over the fourteenth meditation from Book Three of The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.
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In this week's episode we'll be reading and going over the thirteenth meditation from Book Three of The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.
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In this week's episode we'll be reading and going over the twelfth meditation from Book Three of The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.
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In this week's episode we'll be reading and going over the eleventh meditation from Book Three of The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.
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In this week's episode we'll be reading and going over the tenth meditation from Book Three of The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.
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In this week's episode we'll be reading and going over the ninth meditation from Book Three of The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.
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In this week's episode we'll be reading and going over the eighth meditation from Book Three of The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.
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In this week's episode we'll be reading and going over the seventh meditation from Book Three of The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.
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In this week's episode we'll be reading and going over the sixth meditation from Book Three of The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.
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In this week's episode we'll be reading and going over the fifth meditation from Book Three of The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius.
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Listeing to the words, advice, ramblings, and complainings of most people will do nothing for you. But perhaps there are some people whom thinking of, or listening to, would benefit your own goal of creating a virtuous character and healthy mind. Let's explore that in Meditation #4 of Book Three.
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Today we'll work through the third meditation of Book 3 from the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius where we'll explore what might happen after death, and how, in either case, it shouldn't be feared.
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Today we'll work through the second meditation of Book 3 from the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius where we'll explore the more poetic (if you could call it that) side of Stoicism.
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Today we'll work through the first meditation of Book 3 from the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius where we'll be asked to consider what might become of our mission as Prokoptôns if we were to lose our mental faculties.
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Today we'll work through the final meditation of Book 2 from the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. After this, I will take a break until the middle of June when I will return with episodes to begin Book 3.
If you'd like to get a free copy of the ebook, signup here: https://tannerhelps.formaloo.net/rg3ce Visit the Practical Stoicism website --> https://stoicismpod.com -- “Human Life. Duration: Momentary. Nature: Changeable. Perception: Dim. Condition of Body: Decaying. Soul: Spinning around. Fortune: Unpredictable. Lasting fame: Uncertain. Sum Up: The body and its parts are a river, the soul a dream and mist, life is warfare and a journey far from home, lasting reputation is oblivion. Then what can guide us? Only Philosophy. Which means making sure that the power within stays safe and free from assault, superior to pleasure and pain, doing nothing randomly or dishonestly with with imposture, not dependent on anyone else’s doing something or not doing it. And making sure that it accepts what happens and what it is dealt as coming from the same place it came from. And above all, that it accepts death in a cheerful spirit, as nothing but the dissolution of the elements from which each living thing is composed. If it doesn’t hurt the individual elements to change continually into one another, why are people afraid of all of them changing and separating? It’s a natural thing. And nothing natural is evil." -- Meditations: A New Translation (the book I read these meditations from) --> [link]
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This week we're working through Meditation 16 from Book 2 of The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
"The human soul degrades itself:
Above all, when it does its best to become an abscess, a kind of detached growth on the world. To be disgruntled at anything that happens is a kind of secession from Nature, which comprises the nature of all things.
When it turns its back on another person or sets out to do it harm, as the souls of the angry do.
When it is overpowered by pleasure or pain
When it puts on a mask and does or says something artificial or false
When it allows its action and impulse to be without a purpose, to be random and disconnected: even the smallest things ought to be directed toward a goal. But the goal of rational beings is to follow the rule and law of the most ancient of communities and states."
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This week we're working through Meditation 15 from Book 2 of The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
“‘Everything is just an impression.’ These are the words of Monimus the Cynic. And the response is obvious enough. But the point is a useful one, if you take it for what it’s worth.”
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This week we're working through Meditation 14 from Book 2 of The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
“Even if you’re going to live three thousand more years, or ten times that, remember: you cannot lose another life than the one you’re living right now, or live another one than the one you’re losing. The longest life amounts to the same as the shortest. The present is the same for everyone, its loss is the same for everyone; and it should be clear that a brief instant is all that is lost. For you can’t lose either the past or the future; how could you lose what you don’t have? Remember two things:
That everything has always been the same, and keeps recurring, and it makes no difference whether you see the same things recur in a hundred years or two hundred, or in an infinite period;
That the longest-lived, and this who will die the soonest, lose the same thing. The present is all that they can give up, since that is all they have, and what you do not have you cannot lose.”
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This week we're working through Meditation 13 from Book 2 of The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. "Nothing is more pathetic than people who run around in circles, “delving into the things that lie beneath” and conducting investigations into the souls of the people around them, never realizing that all you have to do is be attentive to the power inside you and worship it sincerely. To worship it is to keep it from being muddied with turmoil and becoming aimless and dissatisfied with nature — divine and human. What is Divine deserves our respect because it is good; what is human deservers our affection because it is like us. And our pity too, sometimes, for its inability to tell good from bad — as terrible a blindness as the kind that can’t tell white from black." Meditations: A New Translation (the book I read these meditations from) --> [link]
This week we're working through Meditation 12 from Book 2 of The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. "The speed with which all of them vanish — the objects in the world, and the memory of time. And the real nature of the things our senses experience, especially those that entice us with pleasure or frighten us with pain or are loudly trumpeted by pride. To understand those things — how stupid, contemptible, grimy, decaying, and dead they are — that’s what our intellectual powers are for. And to understand what those people really amount to, whose opinions and voices that constitute fame. And what dying is — and that if you look at it in the abstract and break down your imaginary ideas of it by logical analysis, you realize that it’s nothing but a process of nature, which only children can be afraid of. (And not only a process of nature but a necessary one.) And how man grasps God, with what part of himself he does so, and how that part is conditioned when he does." Meditations: A New Translation (the book I read these meditations from) --> [link]
Something bad may happen to you, but you have all the tools you need to limit the ubiquity of the damage it does to you in the long-term. This week we're working through Meditation 11 from Book 2 of The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. "You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think. If the gods exist, then to abandon human beings is not frightening; the gods would never subject you to harm. And if they don’t exist, or don’t care what happens to us, what would be the point of living in a world without gods or providence? But they do exist, they do care what happens to us, and everything a person need to avoid real harm they have placed within him. If there were anything harmful on the other side of death, they would have made sure that the ability to avoid it was within you. If it doesn’t harm your character, how can it harm your life? Nature would not have overlooked such dangers through failing to recognize them, or because it saw them but was powerless to prevent or correct them. Nor would it ever, through inability or incompetence, make such a mistake as to let good and bad things happen indiscriminately to good and bad alike. But death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these things happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble or shameful - and hence neither good or bad." Meditations: A New Translation (the book I read these meditations from) --> [link]
Failure is failure, and it's expected along the path. Is one failure more or less forgivable than another failure? I think we only hurt ourselves by believing that so, in concerns to our stoic practice: I say no. This week we're working through Meditation 10 from Book 2 of The Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. “In comparing sins (the way people do) Theophrastus says that the ones committed out of desire are worse than the ones committed out of anger: which is good philosophy. The angry man seems to turn his back on reason out of a kind of pain and inner convulsion. But the man motivated by desire, who is mastered by pleasure, seems somehow more self-indulgent, less manly in his sins. Theophrastus is right, and philosophically sound, to say that the sin committed out of pleasure deserves a harsher rebuke than the one committed out of pain. The angry man is more like a victim of wrongdoing, provoked by pain to anger. The other man rushes into wrongdoing on his own, moved by action to desire.” Meditations: A New Translation (the book I read these meditations from) --> [link]
This week we'll be working through meditation #9 from book 2 of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius "Don’t ever forget these things:
The nature of the world.
My nature.
How I relate to the world.
What proportion of the world I make up.
That I am part of nature, and no one can prevent me from speaking and acting in harmony with it, always."
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This week we'll be working through the 8th meditation from book 2 of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius.
"Ignoring what goes on in other people’s souls — no one ever came to grief that way. But if you won’t keep track of what your own soul is doing, how can you not be unhappy?"
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This week we'll be working through the 7th meditation from book 2 of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius. "But make sure you guard against the other kind of confusion. People who labor all their lives but have no purpose to direct every thought and impulse toward are wasting their time - even when hard at work." Meditations: A New Translation (the book I read these meditations from) --> [link]
This week's episode features meditation #6 from Book 2 of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. "Yes, keep on degrading yourself, soul. But soon your chance at dignity will be gone. Everyone gets one life. Yours is almost used up, and instead of treating yourself with respect, you have entrusted your own happiness to the souls of others." The book I read these meditations from --> [link]
This week's episode features meditation #5 from Book 2 of the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius. “Concentrate every minute like a Roman - like a man - on doing what’s in front of you with precise and genuine seriousness, tenderly, willingly, with justice. And on freeing yourself from all other distractions. Yes, you can - if you do everything as if it were the last thing you were doing in your life, and stop being aimless, stop letting your emotions override what your mind tells you, stop being hypocritical, self-centered, irritable. You see how few things you have to do to live a satisfying and reverent life? If you can manage this, that’s all even the gods can ask of you.” Vote on the publication question here --> https://stoicismpod.com/vote The book I read these meditations from --> [link]
The fourth meditation of Marcus Aurelius reads, “Remember how long you’ve been putting this off, how many extensions the gods gave you, and you didn’t use them. At some point you have to recognize what world it is that you belong to; what power rules it and from what source you spring; that there is a limit to the time assigned you, and if you don’t use it to free yourself, it will be gone and will never return.” Marcus is asking us to recognize our own mortality - to truly recognize it - and then to look at the things we're putting off and ask ourselves what exactly what we're waiting for.
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Working through the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius: Book 2, Meditation 3. “What is divine is full of Providence. Even chance is not divorced from nature, from the inweaving and enfolding of things governed by Providence. Everything proceeds from it. And then there is necessity and the needs of the whole world, of which you are a part. Whatever the nature of the whole world does, and whatever serves to maintain it, is good for every part of nature. The world is maintained by change — in the elements and in the things they compose. That should be enough for you; treat it as an axiom. Discard your thirst for books, so that you won’t die in bitterness, but in cheerfulness and truth, grateful to the gods from the bottom of your heart.” If you'd like to leave this Practical Stoicism a review, but you are not an Apple Podcasts or Spotify, you can do so on PodChaser --> [link]
In this first episode of a 17-part series on Book 2 of the Meditations (Marcus Aurelius), I'll attempt to derive some practical advice and application from Marcus's first meditation.
If you came across Stoicism in the early 2010's (as I did) you likely heard something about a coffee mug shattering into a million pieces and how you could use this analogy to deal with death and loss. That probably didn't make a lot sense to you at first - it may have even seemed insane. There's something to this caffeinate analogy, though - and there's something practical we can extract from it to apply in our daily lives.
My name is Tanner, and this is Practical Stoicism. Bi-weekly we will delve into a Stoic concept and learn how to adopt it practically. You don't need a PhD to enjoy this podcast, you just need a curious and open mind.