Hosted by Justin Stohlton & Bruce Peck · 🇺🇸 US · EN-US · 67 episodes
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This podcast bridges the gap between the beautiful, concise teachings of the Stoics and everyday life, in a fun, not too stuffy and modern way. We share how Stoicism affects us personally, give practical ways to use it in your own life and have a fun time rapping, singing, creating sketches, fake commercials/holidays and many more things about Stoicism.
Justin Stohlton & Bruce Peck hosts Modern Meditations - Stoicism For The Real World, a society show with 67 episodes published.
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Modern Meditations , we explore Chapter 7 of Epictetus’ Enchiridion, one of the most vivid and debated analogies in Stoicism. Using the image of a ship, a captain, and a shoreline full
Send us Fan Mail In this New Year’s special, we revisit On the Shortness of Life and come to a deeply encouraging conclusion: You’re not out of time, you’re just wasting it. We break down Seneca’s idea of the Preoccupied
Send us Fan Mail A horse can be proud of its own beauty. But if you’re proud of owning a beautiful horse, you’ve already confused what’s yours with what isn’t. In this episode, we break down Enchiridion 6 and the Stoic w
Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we take on one of Epictetus’ most uncomfortable claims: you’re not disturbed by events, only by the opinions you bring to them. We unpack his three-tiered model of the mind (the untraine
Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Modern Meditations, Bruce and Justin turn a weekend of budget hotels, dollar rental cars, $12 orange juice, and marathon gels into a masterclass on Stoic expectations. Drawing on Epict
Send us Fan Mail What’s the difference between loving deeply and clinging desperately? Epictetus thought the line was thinner than we like to admit. In Enchiridion Chapter 3, he reminds us that every embrace is an embrac
Send us Fan Mail When Chris Martin paused a Coldplay concert to comment on a kiss-cam couple—“Either they’re having an affair, or they’re just very shy”—he unintentionally exposed more than just awkward chemistry. Days l
Send us Fan Mail We're onto a brand new book the Enchiridion (or 'the Handbook') this book was written by a former slave to help other reach inner freedom. For this series we're reading the whole chapter every day and lo
Send us Fan Mail Book 1- 0:0:09 Book 2- 0:17:04 Book 3- 0:31:01 Book 4- 0:47:58 Book 5- 1:14:33 Book 6- 1:40:41 Book 7- 2:08:00 Book 8- 2:34:17 Book 9- 3:00:59 Book 10- 3:27:20 Book 11- 3:54:27 Book 12- 4:18:37
Send us Fan Mail Becoming worthy of the world that created you is a tall order, but luckily Marcus has some tips! Learn about letting go of the past through Justin's experience in High School romance, and Bruce's rare br
Send us Fan Mail The 12th and final book of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations is full of gems. Marcus starts off telling himself how to become worthy of the universe that made him. "if you shall not be afraid because you must
Send us Fan Mail Bruce has found another hero to obsess about, no surprise it's the world's fastest marathoner: Eluid Kipchoge (a stoic adjacent runner.) In today's episode we break down some of the many lessons that can
Send us Fan Mail Book 11 of Marcus Aurelius' Meditations.
Send us Fan Mail Have you ever had a friend insist that a quote is relevant, additive, and deep, but you just don't get it? Listen to Bruce try to justify bringing in this quote from "Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" and
Send us Fan Mail In Book 10 of Meditations, Marcus Aurelius reflects on the impermanence of life, the futility of seeking fame, and the importance of living in harmony with nature. He emphasizes resilience in the face of
Send us Fan Mail This episode took us a year to make... Well, at least it is the byproduct of a year focused on focus and rest for Bruce. If you read between the lines of Meditations Book 9 you'll find an emperor who als
Send us Fan Mail As is now Modern Meditations tradition we ended 2024 with reading Seneca’s “On The Shortness of Life” and sat down for a chat about how we did with this year that is not coming back. We both saw meaningf
Send us Fan Mail On the 50th episode of Modern Meditations we break our format to give you two audio essays that changed our views on what it means to be a citizen of the world. In Meditations we read, “My city and count
Send us Fan Mail Experience Stoic literature first-hand by listening directly to the audiobook of Mediations by Marcus Aurelius. Book 9 of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius contains absolute banger quotes such as: 9:20 "It
Send us Fan Mail Discussing Book 8 of Marcus Aurelius' meditations is not for those unready to face the existential dread of facing themselves and what they were born to do... Are you? We start with a fun teaser of "What
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