The goal of life is living in agreement with Nature. Zeno of Citium The ancient Stoics argued that living a virtuous life means “living in accordance with nature”. Now, what did they exactly mean by this? Are we to follow our instincts as animals do? Or Should we live a nature-friendly lifestyle? In this video, […]
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Love, Lust & Stoicism 📽️
You might be wondering; how did the ancient Stoics view love and lust? Were they hopeless romantics or rather cold and distant? Were they pleasure-seekers enjoying polyamory or did they value the duties of marriage? In this video, I will explore lust, love, and Stoicism. So, there’s a big difference between love and lust, although […]
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Nostalgia | Why do we mourn the past? 📽️
People are divided about how we should approach these intense experiences related to past events, called nostalgia. Some people just love to immerse themselves in memories, good or bad and take deep journeys into the realm of the former. Other people avoid clinging to memories because this only makes them sad. So, can we see […]
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Pride & Arrogance in Stoicism 📽️
I want to dedicate this video to a question from one of my Patreon supporters named Juansaman, about pride and arrogance in Stoicism. It was quite a detailed question, and enough food for thought to dedicate one video on. Here’s the question: I’m very fond of this philosophy, but I also consider humility a great […]
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Letting Go of Resentment 📽️
There’s something special I’d like to share with you today because very recently, life taught me another lesson about resentment. And that letting go of resentment is actually a lot easier than the mind makes us believe. I’d like to share with you what I’ve learned, accompanied by a Stoic as well as a Buddhist […]
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10 Things That Disturb Inner Peace 📽️
Let’s do some backward thinking today. In order to achieve inner peace, we might want to explore what actually stands in the way of achieving it, so we can eliminate these things and reach a state of tranquility. In this video, I will present to you 10 things that disturb inner peace. 1) The need […]
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4 Ways to Deal With ‘Toxic People’ 📽️
Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 2-1 We all know someone in our lives that’s so exhausting to be around. There’s always some form of drama going on, and if […]
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Stop Caring What People Think 📽️
It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own. Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 12-4 People spend so much energy worrying about what other people think about them. The thing is: it’s a huge waste of time; especially in the age of the […]
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How To Increase Conscientiousness 📽️
Creating order out of chaos is a part of living in a conscientious manner. And conscientiousness is a personality trait that can be subdivided into orderliness and industriousness and is a predictor of long term success. In this video, I’ll share some insights on how to increase it, in order to be more productive, organized […]
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The Art of Tranquility (Seneca’s Wisdom) 📽️
Seneca The Younger was a philosopher who held an important position in the Roman Empire and is one of the major contributors to the ancient philosophy of Stoicism. Seneca once exchanged letters with his friend Serenus, on how to free the mind from anxiety and worry in a Stoic way. This dialogue is now called […]
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