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🏛️Stoicism
Use a 2,300-year-old philosophy to stay calm and act well under pressure
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Unit 1
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Course overview
What Stoicism actually is
Stoicism defined
Where it started: Zeno and the painted porch
The Greek origins
From Greece to Rome
Roman Stoicism
Meet Seneca
Seneca and the Letters
Unit 2
Meet Epictetus
Epictetus, the Enchiridion, and the Discourses
Meet Marcus Aurelius
Marcus Aurelius and the Meditations
The one idea that runs everything: the dichotomy of control
Up to us versus not up to us
Sorting your life into the two piles
Applying the dichotomy
Emotions come from judgments
It is not the thing, it is your view of it
Unit 3
Virtue is the only true good
What Stoics call good
The four virtues
Wisdom, courage, justice, temperance
The three disciplines
Assent, desire, and action
Negative visualization
Premeditatio malorum
The view from above
Zooming out for perspective
Unit 4
Amor fati and memento mori
Love your fate, remember death
Handling anger, fear, grief, and desire
Stoic tools for hard emotions
Stoicism is not being unemotional
Clearing up the biggest myth
Stoicism and modern therapy
The line from Epictetus to CBT
Criticisms and limits
Where Stoicism gets pushback
Unit 5
Common misreadings
Mistakes to avoid
A daily practice routine
Morning and evening reflection
Journaling and voluntary discomfort
Two practices that make it stick
Putting it all together
Your working model of Stoicism
Where to go next
Where to go next