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A Stoic Way to Practice MindfulnessNovember 20, 2025
Such as are your habitual thoughts, so also will be the character of your mind. For the soul is dyed by its thoughts. — Marcus AureliusChange your thoughts and you can change your life. That’s how I sometimes paraphrase a central Stoic idea: what unsettles us is rarely the world alone but the judgments we… Read more: A Stoic Way to Practice Mindfulness
Video: Modern Stoicism for Modern LifeOctober 14, 2025
The Centre for Inquiry Canada (CFIC) is a non-profit educational organization dedicated to the promotion of scientific skepticism, secularism, and rational inquiry. Check out my recent interview with them, discussing Stoicism, Socrates, and self-improvement. Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming… Read more: Video: Modern Stoicism for Modern Life
Ancient Wisdom for Modern Anxiety — Join My New Live WorkshopOctober 7, 2025
Hello everyone, I’m excited to share something new. This December I’ll be teaching a live, two-hour online workshop as part of the Five Things I’ve Learned series: 👉 REGISTER NOW: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Anxiety📅 Thursday, December 4 — 8pm Eastern For over two decades I’ve studied the Stoics — and used their wisdom alongside… Read more: Ancient Wisdom for Modern Anxiety — Join My New Live Workshop
Imagine the consequences of your actions beforehand…August 7, 2025
In each separate thing that you do, consider the matters which come first and those which follow after, and only then approach the thing itself. Otherwise, at the start you will come to it enthusiastically, because you have never reflected upon any of the subsequent steps, but later on, when some difficulties appear, you will… Read more: Imagine the consequences of your actions beforehand…
Unclenching the Fist of AngerAugust 2, 2025
The clenched fist is a universal symbol of determination as well as of aggressive tension. — Calvert Stein, ‘Clenched fist as a hypno behavioural procedure’, 1963 Many years ago, I used to teach an old conditioning technique introduced by the behaviour therapist Calvert Stein, in the early 1960s. Stein had his clients clench the fist… Read more: Unclenching the Fist of Anger

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