Stoicism was the most popular school of philosophy for 500 years before Christianity exploded into the scene and took over that whole question.
Stoics had an idea of what they called amor fati, which is this sort of love of everything that happens to you.
So stoic philosophy is in essence the operating system that I use for making better decisions, or try to use.
The Stoics were a little bit more laconic and less beautifully written than the Buddhists and Confucius
But stoicism, the three most prominent stoics are Marcus Aurelius, who I just said was the emperor, Epictetus, who was a former slave.
Going back to that Stoic model of things you can control and things you can't, I think any sort of pursuit
The two stoic concepts are apathea and ataraxia.
comes from stoic philosophy.
Epictetus was an early stoic and he gave lectures in Rome.
The happy stoic is the one that is aligned with what is good, what needs to be improved, and actually likes it.
been really stoic about that in the sense that when there's been kind of pain and suffering, in fact
My favorite stoic quote is from Marcus Aurelius.
I think that modern stoicism has been revived in cognitive behavioral therapy.
This is from the stoics over 2,300 years ago, and it's called-- I love the name-- pre-meditation of evil.
Strive to have a stoichiometric, or a chemically ideal, combustion.
So I focus on stoicism, specifically on Marcus Aurelius, who is at the time of writing his book "Meditations," which mine is partially based on,
That's what stoicism's about.
And so stoicism is about control in that sense.
- In many ways you live a pretty stoic existence.
is a quote from Seneca-- ancient Roman stoic .
And then I do the "Daily Stoic " journal, which it is my journal so it's somewhat weird.
I had an email for "Daily Stoic " to write.
And they're just very stoic .
And he just was very stoic , like Deuki's dad.
to that really strict and stoic academic background to really build something that can create real impact,
occupied other than thinking about the stoic philosophers?
I'd rather be suffering than stoic .
We want to be always stoic , have the same demeanor no matter what people throw at us.
I'm one of these stoic leaders.
Cato was considered by many the perfect stoic .
And this is not necessarily stoic .
he said basically I was reading the stoic philosophers.
And a lot of the stoic exercises are sort of about practice not having those things.
And then my dad was really like stoic .
the Athenian sto of the Stoic philosophers.
We were talking um earlier about stoicism. I think like Marcus Aurelius's meditations is so informative on so many
The ancient Greek and Roman stoics said we shouldn't let ourselves feel anger.
I still love Aristotle and the stoics .
So stempathy is the combination of stoicism, of cause and effect of human behavior, and empathy of understanding the human being through that nonjudgmental curiosity
One of the most beautiful exercises in Stoicism is this exercise they call the dichotomy of control.
And one of the things that the stoics talk about is the story we tell ourselves about the things that happen,
So I think once you see the stoics do a lot is sort of strip the interpretation out of things
For someone just getting into stoicism, where do you find a natural starting point?
So what I like about stoicism is that it offers practical ways of practicing this.
And my last book was about stoicism and the stoics are always talking about having an attitude that's resilient, in case that always happens.
And what's really cool about stoicism-- Well, we can talk about stoicism a little bit more in a minute.
So weirdly I got introduced to stoicism, because when I was in college I got invited to this conference that was put on by Trojan condoms
looking to caretake for everyone else and then hold this very stoic , rigid belief about how much care we're not allowed for ourselves.
It's in his head It's kind of like the stoic philosophy of the ancient Greeks.
who's otherwise cut from the image of the stoic father man-type.