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#352 - Ben Aldridge - How To Be Comfortable Being Uncomfortable

Modern Wisdom

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Diogenes - The Troll of Ancient Greece

Stoicism is a combination of fear and play, which are two things that don't really go hand in hand. You collect things that scare you, and you create an anti bucket list to avoid them. And then you deliberately go out and do that - it's just o ka. So i love this idea. I think kate o practised walking backward through a crowd that was leaving a theatre. Did you see this one? Yes. As i'v i've heard the cynics as well, the cynic philosophers inspired the stoics. Diogenes woulve absolutely a troll man, that wasn't it? Alexander the great for anyone that doesn't know thisso

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