Socrates had a strange idea: that another person can act as a mirror for your own mind, showing you the thoughts you cannot see on your own. In this conversation with philosopher Donald Robertson, we follow that thread through Socrates on wisdom, self-awareness, and the art of asking the right question. We get into how he used dialogue to surface what people ... Show More
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Amor Fati: The Stoic Practice Of Loving Your Fate
What would it mean to work with the life you have, even when it takes a turn you would never have chosen?This recorded talk explores amor fati, the practice of loving your fate, and the difference between active acceptance and passive resignation. I connect the idea with three ev ... Show More
25m 47s
Oct 15
Jon Friedland: Jiu-Jitsu, Fear and the Practice of Stoicism
Your first jiu-jitsu class can expose how little your toughness helps. Going back takes a different kind of courage.Jon Friedland joins me to explore what training can teach us about Stoicism. We discuss competition nerves, judging a performance without clinging to the result, an ... Show More
1h 6m
Oct 13
Difficult People: A Stoic Masterclass
How do you stay yourself around someone who keeps drawing you into conflict?In this recorded Stoic masterclass, I work through five practical moves: expect difficulty, notice the hook, drop the rope, make your boundary a behaviour, and look honestly at your own patterns. We also ... Show More
35m 5s
Nov 2024
The True Story Of History’s Greatest Philosopher - Donald Robertson - #864
Donald Robertson is a cognitive-behavioral psychotherapist, an author and an expert on ancient philosophy. If you were to divide philosophy into two eras, it would be pre-Socratic and post-Socratic. Socrates is history's greatest philosopher, and today we get to discover new less ... Show More
2 h
May 2025
#417 — Philosophy for Life
<p dir="ltr">Sam Harris speaks with Donald Robertson about Stoicism and the good life. They discuss the relationship between wisdom and virtue, ancient versions of psychotherapy, parallels between Stoicism and Buddhism, practical vs. analytical styles of philosophy, CBT's origins ... Show More
22m 30s
May 2023
How to Develop More Positive Influences in Your Life
In this episode, we discuss how the thoughts and ideas we most see in our newsfeed impacts how we think about and perceive the world, and also how we can reimagine our relationship to this information intake so that it's a positive force in our life.As always, if you'd like to ge ... Show More
5m 57s