The Stoic Handbook with Jon Brooks
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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.
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Marcus Aurelius Was Terrible at Stoicism
Marcus Aurelius is the most quoted philosopher on the internet, and his private journal shows a man who kept failing at the thing he's famous for. He struggled to get out of bed. He needed ten…
Stoic Morning Practice: Quiet The Inner Critic
You haven't done anything yet, and the voice is already running its commentary. Too slow, too weak, not enough. The day hasn't started and you're already failing in advance. This guided Stoic…
Stoic Morning Affirmations: Eight Truths for the Day Ahead (Guided Practice)
Most morning affirmations ask you to declare a future you wish for. The Stoics did the opposite. They began the day by recollecting what was already true.This is a short guided practice built from…
The Manosphere Got Stoicism Backwards
The manosphere has spent years quoting the Stoics to young men. Marcus Aurelius. Epictetus. Seneca. The version they sell, anger as strength, dominance as virtue, emotion as weakness, is the opposite…
Overthinking Is Not a Thinking Problem
Most advice for overthinking points you at the thoughts themselves. Journal them. Replace the negative ones with positive ones. Breathe. Meditate. Run. But what if the thoughts were never the…
The Anxiety Trap: Why Fighting Makes It Worse
For most of my adult life I had a low-level hypervigilance running in the background. I tried to fight it with books, breathwork, control techniques, willpower. The harder I fought, the worse it…
Why the Stoics Never Needed Willpower
You have quit every hard goal for the same reason, and it is not lack of willpower.The Stoics worked this out 2,000 years ago. Instead of fighting discomfort with more discipline, they asked one…
Stoic Morning Practice: Stop Dreading Day Before It Starts
Some mornings the dread arrives before the alarm. A tightness in the chest, a list already forming, a quiet resistance to the day ahead. This guided Stoic practice meets you there, not with forced…
When the World Feels Unjust (A Stoic Response)
Most people hear focus on what you can control and assume Stoicism means stop caring about everything else. That is not what it means, and it might be one of the most misunderstood ideas in the whole…
Discipline Is a Skill, Not a Trait (5 Stoic Moves)
I used to think discipline was a character trait, like height or eye colour. Some people had it. I did not. That story is comfortable, and it is rubbish.The Stoics did not treat discipline as…
91% of Goals Fail: A Stoic Philosopher Explained Why 2,000 Years Ago
Most resolutions fail because they are built wrong, not because you lack willpower. Epictetus worked out why 2,000 years ago.In this episode I break down three tests from Stoic philosophy that expose…
Stoic Morning Energy Boost: 5 Minutes To Wake Up Ready
Some mornings you do not need calm. You need to wake up. This 5-minute Stoic practice is built for the mornings when your body is out of bed but your mind has not followed.You will move through five…
Your Opinions Aren't Observations, They're Demands
You form hundreds of opinions a day. About the news, about your colleagues, about the person in front of you in the queue. They feel automatic, like seeing. But they are not observations. They are…
"Remove Desire Entirely": What Epictetus Actually Meant
You read that line in the Discourses and your mind goes straight to cravings. Appetites. The stuff you are ashamed of. But that is not what Epictetus meant, and the real meaning is more useful than…
Marcus Aurelius Morning Meditation: Face The Day With Stoic Calm
You know the feeling. The alarm goes off and the day is already rushing at you. The emails, the conversations you are not ready for, the low-grade dread of what might go wrong.Marcus Aurelius knew it…
Stoic Indifferents Explained: How to Want Without Suffering
If only virtue is good, why does anything else matter? Why go to the gym, build a career, or plan for the future?This is the question that confused me for about a year of reading Stoic texts, and the…
Own What's Yours: The Dichotomy of Control (From The Vault)
This episode is a full lesson from one of the premium courses inside The Stoic Vault, my membership for people who practise Stoicism rather than just read about it.The lesson comes from the course…
The Stoic Vault: What I Built and Why
About two years ago, I hit a wall. I had been teaching Stoicism for years. Writing about it. Making podcasts about it. And I was still losing my temper. Still spiralling over emails. Still lying…
What the Stoics Actually Meant by Practice
Epictetus did not write books. He ran a school where students lived for years, practising responses to insults, hardship and loss. Marcus Aurelius wrote the Meditations as a daily training regimen,…
The Gap Between Knowing Stoicism and Living It
A few months ago I was in a conversation that started to go sideways. I could feel the tension rising, the tightening in my chest, my voice getting sharper. I knew exactly what was happening. I have…
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