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Mar 2025
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8-Minute Stoic Clarity for Your Morning

JON BROOKS
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The Stoic Vault: What I Built and Why
Send us a textAbout two years ago, I hit a wall.I'd been teaching Stoicism for years. Writing about it. Making podcasts about it. And I was still losing my temper. Still spiraling over emails. Still lying awake replaying conversations.I knew the philosophy cold. And I couldn't ap ... Show More
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Send us a textEpictetus didn't write books. He ran a school where students lived for years, practicing responses to insults, hardship, and loss. Marcus Aurelius wrote the Meditations as a daily training regimen—the same ideas, over and over, drilling them into his reflexes. Senec ... Show More
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Send us a textA few months ago, I was in a conversation that started to go sideways. I could feel the tension rising—the tightening in my chest, my voice getting sharper. I knew exactly what was happening. I've studied this. I've taught this. I know what Marcus Aurelius would say ... Show More
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