The Bottomless Pit, Why You Can't Get Enough of What Won't Satisfy You
When most people hear the word addiction, they think of the obvious culprits. Drugs, alcohol, maybe gambling. And they are not wrong. But there is a far more common…
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Everything has two handles, the one by which it may be carried, the other by which it cannot.
ClarityI do not like owning things. Not because I am some monk who has renounced the world, but because every object I own quietly asks something of me in return. Time, money, attention, worry. A possession is never just a possession…
When most people hear the word addiction, they think of the obvious culprits. Drugs, alcohol, maybe gambling. And they are not wrong. But there is a far more common…
There is a quiet myth most of us absorbed without noticing. It says that once you choose a path, once you pick the degree, start the career, get known for a thing…
There is a comforting delusion floating around that your income should somehow be disconnected from the value you provide to other people. We hear it constantly. I…
A simple 30 day plan to turn Stoicism from something you read into something you live. Each day adds one small practice, building week by week from controlling your…
No more overthinking decisions you have already made fifty times. No more analysis paralysis. By the end of this, you will have a simple system to make any decision…
Amor fati and memento mori are two of the most quoted phrases in Stoicism. Amor fati means love your fate, the practice of embracing everything that happens to you…
Apatheia is the Stoic state of freedom from destructive emotions like rage, fear, and craving. It is not apathy or coldness. The Stoics did not aim to feel nothing…
The best Stoic books fall into two groups. First the three ancient sources, the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius, the Letters of Seneca, and the Discourses and…
This is a hard truth that many caring people struggle to accept. You cannot save everyone, no matter how badly you want to. And our attempts to rescue people often…
Cato the Younger was a Roman senator and Stoic famous for an integrity that could not be bought, bribed, or frightened. He spent his life defending the dying…
Chrysippus of Soli was the third head of the Stoic school and the thinker who turned it into a system. He wrote hundreds of books, built the logic that held…
Cleanthes of Assos was the second head of the Stoic school, the man who kept it alive after Zeno. A former boxer who hauled water by night to pay for philosophy by…
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