About Socratic State of Mind
If your inner discourse is off, you’re going to be miserable.
Your mind can ruin your greatest victories, but it might also turn setbacks into experiences you’re surprisingly happy about. Everything, in other words, is fuel for growth.
Socratic State of Mind is about remaking our inner discourse to get the most out of the good times while fortifying us against chaos and failure. Our focus is psychological growth, doing good, and happiness.
We’re here to talk about the tools that pry meaning free from circumstance — from physics — and let us craft our own meaning. They’re powerful tools, perhaps the greatest technologies ever created for mental and spiritual health.
About Me:
My name is Andrew Perlot.
Marcus Aurelius and the Stoics helped me get past obesity, depression, and an autoimmune disease called Colitis when I was younger, and for the last twenty years my philosophy practice has steadied me through life’s ups and downs.
Since then, I’ve dialed in Socrates, Montaigne, and several other philosophers focused on living well to create a hodge-podge, Stoicism-centered philosophy for myself.
Philosophy has a weird ivory tower theoretical feel in modern culture, but its ancient heart has always focused on the practical process of making us better humans. I want to help bring that back.
Why You Should Care:
I want everyone to think better so their life sucks less. I’m not about delusional optimism or suppressing emotion, but applying exercises and ways of talking to ourselves that make us anti-fragile.
I hope you’ll stick around and message me if this resonates.
Paid Subscriber Benefits:
For a few dollars a month you’ll be able to access my full archive of substack articles, get my Memento Mori Calendar, and if you’re an annual subscriber you can have a quarterly call with me. I’ll throw in some occasional surprise benefits too.
