Category: Stoicism

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

In past videos, I have talked about several meme-based personality types. One of these types is the doomer. I was surprised how many views my video about doomers got. And after reading the comments I realized that many young people identify themselves as doomers. I have mixed feelings about this because, after all, the doomer […]

In earlier videos, I talked about the things that are up to us, and the things that are not up to us. In this video, I want to go a bit deeper into how we approach life by a powerful yet dangerous tool in our toolbox: our judgment. Have you ever asked yourself this question: […]