Stoic Indifferents Explained: How to Want Without Suffering

About this episode

This episode explores the concept of Stoic indifferents and their significance in building a consistent Stoic practice.

Start here: If you want to build a consistent Stoic practice — not just listen to one — I made a free 7-day challenge. One short audio lesson per day, one practice to try. No fluff. stoicchallenge.co --- If only virtue is good, why does anything else matter? Why go to the gym, build a career, or plan for the future? This is the question that confused me for about a year of reading Stoic texts — and the answer is one of the most useful distinctions in the entire philosophy. In this epis...

People in this episode

Host: Jon Brooks

Topics covered

• Stoicism
• self-improvement
• philosophy
• virtue
• indifferents

Keywords

• Stoic practice
• virtue
• indifferents
• self-improvement
• philosophy

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Organizations: stoicchallenge.co

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