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 every Monday.
The Stoic Handbook with Jon Brooks
The 3 Limits of Modern Stoicism
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In this lesson, I explore the three limits of modern Stoicism: trauma healing, mindfulness, and ecstatic experiences. In ancient times, they likely had methods of working through these important areas. But modern Stoicism puts a big emphasis on resilience and "coping" with hardship and can inadvertently worship rationality over wisdom, which is not the point.