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Feb 2
10m 20s

The Stoic Vault: What I Built and Why

JON BROOKS
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Send us a text About 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 apply it when it mattered. That's when I started asking: what would actually he ... Show More
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