Stoicism: Philosophy as a Way of Life Podcast

Stoicism, Self-Help and Modern Psychology

Mar 2, 2023

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Getting Bad Advice Is the Worst Advice for You

02:48

The Internet Is a Wash With Self-Improvement Advice

02:25

How to Overcome a Difficult Event

04:27

Introduction

4min

Why Is Wisdom So Important to the Stoics?

4min

The Use That You Make of Your Virtues

4min

How to Think Like a Roman Emperor a Little Bit

4min

The Relationship Between Existential Philosophy and Cognitive Therapy

2min

The Cognitive Theory of Emotions

2min

Is There a School of Philosophy?

2min

What Are the Most Powerful Techniques in Cognitive Behavior Therapy?

5min

What Is Cognitive Distancing?

3min

10.

The Benefits of Stoicism for Emotional Resiliency

6min

11.

How to Visualise View From Above

2min

12.

How to Overcome a Difficult Event

4min

13.

How to Cope With Your Emotions

3min

14.

Cognitive Therapy - Is There Control Over Your Emotions?

3min

15.

How to Control Your Anxiety

4min

16.

The Most Important Components of a Self Help Program

3min

17.

Getting Bad Advice Is the Worst Advice for You

3min

18.

The Internet Is a Wash With Self-Improvement Advice

2min

19.

The Royal Road to Self-Improvement

3min

20.

Is Your Values So Important?

3min

21.

We Don't Value Wisdom

4min

22.

What Kind of Values Should You Incorporate in Your Life?

3min

23.

What Values Should We Clarify?

3min

24.

The Difference Between External and Intense Goals in Clinical Depression

3min

25.

How to Love With Integrity

3min

26.

The Most Important Thing to You in Life Is Acting With Integrity or Creating

2min

27.

The Best Therapy Questions That You Can Ask Anybody

2min

28.

Anger Management

3min

29.

Self-Help Is Inherently Problematic

3min

30.

The Virtue of Being Wrong

3min

31.

The Fallacy of Confirmation Bias in Medical Research

3min

32.

How to Protect Yourself From the Hogwash of the Internet

2min

33.

The Fallacy of Confusing Correlation Causation

4min

34.

What if Wealth and Health and Reputation Don't Always Benefit You

4min

35.

How to Improve Emotional Resilience

5min

36.

What's the Original Plato's Academy?

6min

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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