When I was a young guy, I got into reading philosophy and really started off reading books about religion first. And it kind of stuck with me and I decided I was going to go to university and study philosophy at Aberdeen and Scotland. Then after I did my philosophy degree, I thought like, you know, it was a bit of a joke really that what job do you get when you graduate from a philosophy degree. So I began training and counseling and psych therapy. That was about 25 years ago and I went to my master's degree at Sheffield University in the Centre for Centre for Psych Therapeutic Studies. We studied philosophy, psych therapy, sociology, all kind of mashed together. By
This is the audio of an interview I gave recently for Book Club with Kaiden Kelly, talking about How to Think Like a Roman Emperor, Verissimus, and Stoicism, self-help and modern psychology.
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