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Stoicism, Cognitive Therapy, and Resilience

Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life Podcast

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The Dangers of Self-Help Advice

Most of the guys that are contemporary self-improvement gurus, particularly as they become more and more famous, seem to me to resemble the sophists more and more. There's an odd danger to self-help and self-improvements which is that sometimes self-help advice contains bad psychological advice. People have cognitive biases that are blind spots that prevent them from noticing problems in their lives.

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