The Town Stoic
By The Town Stoic
Categories: Society & Culture, Philosophy
Practical Stoicism from the ancient texts. Each episode takes one problem you actually face, like being treated badly or caring too much what people think, and gives you five rules from Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Seneca and the other ancient thinkers who faced the same thing. Every rule comes from the primary sources, told in plain modern English. New episodes come from The Town Stoic's weekly film on YouTube.
16 episodes indexed on PodSearch.
Recent episodes
- How to Stop Feeling Behind in Life After 55: 5 Stoic Ways | Stoicism
how to stop feeling behind in life, the Stoic way after 55There's a particular kind of quiet that settles in when you open the statement, the one with the retirement number on it, and you do the arithmetic in your head that you've done a hundred times, and it comes out the same.The feeling of…
- How to Handle People Who Don't Respect You: 5 Stoic Moves | Stoicism
how to handle people who don't respect you, the Stoic way after 55There's a particular kind of quiet that falls over you when someone has just been rude, and everyone saw it, and you said nothing. Your son finishes your story for you, wrong, at your own table. Your son-in-law explains the job you…
- What to Do After Retirement: 7 Stoic Habits That Keep You Young
what to do after retirement, and how to stay young after 60, the Stoic wayIt's twenty to seven in the morning, and you're awake with nowhere to be. For forty years the alarm did the deciding. Now the house is quiet, the coffee is made, and a question slips in that you never had time to ask. What…
- 2 Hours of Stoic Wisdom to Fall Asleep To | A Quiet House
stoic philosophy to fall asleep toTwo and a half hours of calm Stoic wisdom for the end of the day. Turn the light down, put the phone out of reach, and listen. Four lessons, read slowly, under one quiet bed of music. If sleep comes in the middle of a lesson, let it. Also on Spotify and Apple…
- Nobody Needs You at 8 A.M.? 8 Rules to Run Your Own Day | Stoicism
how to stay disciplined after retirement and run your own day, the Stoic wayNobody needs you at eight o'clock this morning. For forty years somebody did. A boss, a shift, a route, a child with a lunchbox. Then one day the whole day was just lying there, open, yours, and it turned out the open day…
- Living Alone After 60? 7 Lessons So You Never Feel Lonely | Stoicism
how to be alone without being lonely after 60, the Stoic wayThe house is quiet in a way it didn't used to be. You notice it most around six, the hour the kitchen used to be loud. You set one plate and eat at the counter, because the table has too many chairs. And sometime in the evening a thought…
- How to Stop Being Taken for Granted Without an Argument | Stoicism
how to stop being taken for granted by family and friends, the Stoic wayYour son's name on the screen at four on a Tuesday, and you already know before you answer. The car, or the money, or can you take the kids Saturday, again. You say yes, because you always say yes, and he's gone in ninety…
- 2 Hours of Stoic Wisdom to Fall Asleep To | A Quiet Mind
Two hours of calm Stoic wisdom for the end of the day. Put the phone face down, let the room go dark, and listen. Four lessons, read slowly, under one quiet bed of music. If you fall asleep in the middle of a sentence, that is what it is for.What you'll hear: seven quiet habits of people who are…
- How to Stop Worrying About Things You Can't Control | 8 Stoic Habits
how to stop worrying about things you can't control, the Stoic wayIt's ten past three in the morning and you're awake again, studying the crack in the ceiling while your mind runs the same loop. The result sitting unopened on the portal. Your son's job. Whether the money lasts. Whether you said…
- Stop Explaining Yourself to People Who Never Deserved It | Stoicism
how to stop explaining yourself, the Stoic wayYou already know what you're going to do. The house you're going to sell, the invitation you're not going to accept, the money you're not going to lend this time. And yet there you are at the kitchen table, rewriting the text for the third time, lining…
- 5 Things That Make Old Age Happy, Even If You End Up Alone | Stoicism
how to be happy in old age, even if you end up alone, the Stoic wayThe hardest part of growing old is often not losing people. It's finding out you built your whole sense of safety around people who were never promised to stay. Seneca, in his sixties, walked through the country house he had built…
- 7 Things You Should Never Depend On in Old Age | Stoicism
don't depend on friends, children or partner in old age, the Stoic wayThe people you love most will not always be within reach. Not because they stopped loving you, but because life pulls every one of us somewhere. The kids build lives in other cities, friends move away or get sick, and one day…
- 7 Quiet Habits That Make People Respect You | Stoicism
how to make people respect you, the quiet Stoic wayThe way you treat yourself in front of other people is the way they learn to treat you. Every time you over-explain, apologize for nothing, or laugh off something that hurt, you are teaching them your price. Epictetus, who began life as a slave…
- 9 Stoic Rules to Never Get Angry or Bothered by Anyone
how to never get angry or bothered by anyone, the Stoic wayYou were fine this morning, until one person took the whole day from you in about a minute. Nine Stoic rules for keeping anger from running your day: what Marcus Aurelius did with his face when one of the richest men in the empire insulted…
- 5 Stoic Rules for When People Treat You Badly | Marcus Aurelius
What to do when people treat you badly, and how to stop replaying it.They did it once. You have done it to yourself every night since. Five Stoic rules for when someone treats you badly: how to tell what they did from what you keep doing with it, why you should stop being surprised by the same…
- 5 Rules to Stop Caring What People Think | Marcus Aurelius
How to stop caring what people think.Five Stoic rules for deciding whose opinion actually deserves your attention, and whose you can set down. Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Seneca and Cato, each with one thing you can do this week. It hits at every age, and hardest after fifty.Chapters: 0:00 You…
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