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Happiness Lessons of The Ancients: Plato

The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos

CHAPTER

The Charioteer Metaphor

i love the charioteer metaphor, and why i keep telling my podcast listeners about it in this minny season. It's exactly right set yourself up in situations where you don't have to expend all your charioteer energy controlling these horses. So that was what plato thought about the appetite horse, right? This horse that's kin a going for no, like, food and, like, like, all the kind of physical pleasures. The best way to control the horse of spirit is by cultivating habits that are going to become the natural way that that horse behaves....

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