Index of Socratic State of Mind

Exercises, Tools, Meditations

• How to Journal Like a Philosopher

• A Surprising Way To Find Your Real Values

• Feeling Lost and Passionless? Do This.

• How To Stop Making Mistakes You Really Want To Make

• Stoicism vs Mindfulness for Weight Loss

Powerful Reframings:

• How to Stop Feeling Bad When You Go Home

• Wherever You Wash Ashore, Start From There

• Socrates and the Stoics Want Us to Be Like This AI

• Buddha vs Marcus Aurelius

• Why Kindness is Invincible

• How to Protect Yourself From Manipulation

• How the Powerless Change the World

• What Sir Michael Cane Learned From A Chair

• How To Rescue Yourself

• How To Shift Your Perspective

• How To Carry Everything Your Need

• Don’t Be A Consistent Hobgoblin

Introductory Articles:

• Introduction to Seneca

• Seneca’s Trojan Horse

Rewiring Your Brain:

• How the Stoics Enjoyed Doing Hard Things

• What Almost Dying Taught Me About Happiness

• Fate is Real. Here’s How We Overcome It

• Why No One Expects Killer Toads

• How To be Happy When Life Sucks

• Self Love Ends Here

• How To Stop Making Emotional Decisions

• How to Make Pain Your Ally

Ask a Stoic:

• Dealing with a Polyamorous Partner’s Bad Behavior

• How to Deal with Stupid People

Interviews:

• Donald Robertson on Big Stoic Mistakes and Discovering Your Values

  • Part I, Part II

• Donald Robertson on his book, “Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor.”

Spirituality/Religion

• Love and Physics: What the Universe Wants

Utopian Thinking & Preferred Indifferents

• The Surprising Philanthropy of Rome’s 1%

• The Other Way To Bleed The Rich: Best Practices From Ancient Rome

• Stoics and Epicureans Have Returned: So Where Are The Cynics?

• Can We Create A Wise and Enlightened Citizenry?

• Why We’re Marooned In the Present

One-Minute Philosophy Bites:

• Feeling Stuck? Check your Labels.

• Taking a Stand Without Labels

• Some Labels Make You Stronger

• Where We Draw the Line

• Three Quotes on Becoming Mentally Nimble

• Why Philosophy Makes us Wince

• This is Better than Happiness

• How to Find Truth Where it Isn’t

• The Forgotten Third Rule of Ancient Greek Philosophy

• This is Better Than Being Intelligent

• The Five Words That Sum Up Stoicism

• Why The Best Life Hacks are Subtractions

• What Astronauts and Philosophers Know About Happiness 

• Why Ignorance Isn’t That Bad (This is Worse).

• Why I’m Counting Down The Weeks To My Death

• Why We Should Pity Lucky People

• Why Stoics Make Things Political

• What Navy Seals and Philosophers Know About Anger

• Why So Many People Are Fragile

• How Stoics Solved the Grass is Always Greener Problem

• How Stoics Find Ideal Mentors

• How Stoics Beat Negative Emotion

• The Stoic Trick to Stop Wanting Things

• How Stoics Start Their Mornings

• How Stoics Spend Each Day

• How Stoics End Each Night

• How to Win A Debate by Losing

• Inexperience Isn’t a Selling Point

• How the Rich Janitor Gave Back

• It’s What You Do After the Jump That Counts

• How to Be Ready For Anything

• How to Dance to The Music Only You Hear

• The Trick to Being Relaxed and Dedicated

• Marcus Aurelius on Being Reborn

• Marcus Aurelius’s Journal Secret

• What Philosophy Is Designed To Do

• The Stoic Trick to Stay Present

• Why You’re Still Not Happy

• How to Pity the Morally Disabled

• What Stoicism Protects Us From

• Why We Can’t Give Hitler Nice Things

• Feeling Down? You’re Probably Verbing Your Nouns