In this episode I introduce you to Stoicism and explain why it has endured for thousands of years and how it can serve as a valuable tool throughout your life. Topics include:

• I dispel some misconceptions about stoicism and philosophy.
• I explain how I found stoicism and how it improved my life.
• Then I define what it is before moving into the 3 primary disciplines of stoicism: the discipline of perception, the discipline of action, and the discipline of will.
• I dive deeper into each of these and explain why they're so important and how they interplay with each other in your life. 
• Throughout this we discuss some of the main ideas within stoicism, namely understanding what is and is not under our control and learning to accept what is not and how it is us that choose how to react and respond to anything that happens to us in life. 
• Then we talk a bit about ego as the stoics perceived it.
• That moves into a final thought on anxiety.
• Then I explain all the instances in my life where I lean on stoicism to assist me.
• Then in this week's Call-to-Action we make a list of all the things disturbing our peace of mind. And we go over that list one item at a time and figure out how much of it is actually under our control. And if we don't control it then we can either accept it or allow it to make us suffer. And how does that suffering make the situation any better or improve our lives in any way? It doesn't, so why choose to suffer? 
• You get better at seeing this and accepting things as they are the more you practice the 3 disciplines of stoicism. 
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