Ep. 615 – Stoic Empathy with Author Shermin Kruse

Author and changemaker Shermin Kruse examines the timeless principles of Stoicism and their power to foster mindful, intentional, and empathetic living.

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This week on Mindrolling, Raghu and Shermin Kruse:

• Embracing discomfort and challenges as catalysts for personal and spiritual growth
• Shermin’s powerful story of growing up in Iran during the wartime of the 1980s and 90s
• How Stoic philosophy transformed Shermin’s approach to work, meditation, therapy, and daily life
• The profound relationship between Stoicism and empathy
• Shermin’s Stoic inspiration mother, aunt, and cultural roots
• Understanding the Stoic ideal of the dichotomy of control
• Shermin’s mystical, otherworldly experience while giving birth
• Practicing intentional pause and mindful response to life’s stimuli
• Moving beyond the ego and awakening to loving awareness

About Shermin Kruse:

Shermin Kruse is an award-winning idea curator, global change-maker, complex-system negotiator, lawyer, speaker, and storyteller. Shermin has nearly two decades of experience working in competitive strategy and game theory applications, corporate and community advocacy, brand protection and augmentation, as well as dispute resolution for individuals, public-company boards of directors, international corporations, and Fortune 500 Companies. Shermin also has a decade of parallel experience producing thought-leadership events, including TEDx conferences and a network of salon series. She teaches Negotiating with Tactical Empathy, Global Transactions, Cross-Border Deals, and Leadership at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. In addition to her professional accomplishments, Shermin is a mother of four, living in the heart of Chicago. Her personal journey from the war-torn streets of her native Tehran to the elite corporate boardrooms of the world informs her deep commitment to fostering empathy, control, justice, and global understanding. Learn more on Shermin’s website.

“It’s a kind of resilience and a kind of Stoicism that is very counter to the image of the statue, stoic, white, male figure that we think about when we imagine Greek Stoicism. The interesting thing about Stoicism is all that it has in common with Buddhism, meditation, dance, passion—all of those things.” –Shermin Kruse

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