30 Ways To Instantly Be More Stoic

Short, practical tips on following virtue today and everyday How do you practice Stoicism? Do you adopt it as your philosophy of life and use it to guide your every thought and action? Do you dip in and out of its practical exercises semi-regularly? Maybe you’ve lapsed somewhat in your commitment to live an examined life…

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How To Eat, Drink, And Exercise Like A Stoic

Using Stoicism to inform healthy living For ancient practitioners of philosophies like Stoicism, the principles they adopted weren’t a set of rough guidelines or a list of quick life hacks. Their philosophy wasn’t something they dipped in and out of or referenced only in emergencies. No, for beginner students and philosopher-kings alike, Stoicism was their way…

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Musonius Rufus—Teacher and Exemplary Stoic

Musonius Rufus, A Stoic Teacher The Stoic philosopher Gaius Musonius Rufus was born between approximately 20–30 AD in Volsinii, Etruria (modern-day Bolsena in Italy). As a teacher in ancient Rome, he instructed well-known philosophers like Epictetus and Dio of Prusa. Musonius’s reputation as an educator led to him being admired by people from many different…

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Here’s What We Are (A Brief Perspective Reset)

Here’s what we are: the most abundant and widespread species of primate. One species among millions of other species that exist on the planet called Earth. Here’s what a species is: a word that our species made up to mean a group of living organisms consisting of similar individuals capable of exchanging genes or interbreeding.…

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A Better Way To Escape Pain

“Wanting to get out of pain is the pain; it is not the “reaction” of an “I” distinct from the pain. When you discover this, the desire to escape “merges” into the pain itself and vanishes.” When I read the above sentences recently in Alan Watts’ book The Wisdom of Insecurity, I had one of…

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