#170 - Massimo Piggliuci - 5 Exercises From Stoicism To Improve Your Life
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.7 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2020
⏱️ 90 minutes
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Summary
Massimo Piggliuci is a Professor of Philosophy at City College and an author.
Despite being 2500 years old, Stoicism has recently seen a surge in popularity. I wanted to find out why this ancient philosophy has found root in the modern world.
Expect to learn what the underpinnings of stoicism are, how the foundational principles used by stoics made them resilient to setbacks, 5 exercises & thought experiments to help you improve your life, how to focus your attention where it is needed and much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Hello my friends in podcast land. Welcome back. My guest today is Massimo Pilucci and we are talking about |
| 0:08.0 | Stoicism now you very well may have heard Stoicism be thrown around a lot recently |
| 0:13.0 | It's been popularized by authors like Ryan Holiday and Massimo himself |
| 0:17.4 | But it's ancient two and a half thousand years old. Why are people bothered about this ancient philosophy now? |
| 0:24.2 | So I decided to get an expert on who can explain it to us now |
| 0:28.1 | There's quite an interesting history to how Stoicism developed but I wasn't bothered about going into that today |
| 0:34.1 | What I wanted to get out of Massimo were the practical underpinnings |
| 0:38.4 | What is the philosophy of Stoicism? |
| 0:41.0 | How can we apply it to our lives? What are the modern |
| 0:45.3 | interpretations and adaptations of how we can use this ancient wisdom in a modern way? |
| 0:50.2 | As you can see perfectly fits the show's title |
| 0:53.1 | There is so much to take away from this episode and a lot to think about what I also wanted to get out of Massimo |
| 0:59.9 | Were some exercises which you can apply to your life today or tomorrow? |
| 1:04.2 | Which will allow you to implement these stoic principles and hopefully make you more resilient happier and less prone to anxiety or |
| 1:14.3 | Negativity so if you stick around until the end you will get five |
| 1:18.8 | Practical lessons which you can use exercises that you can do in your life |
| 1:23.9 | Which allow you to not only think and understand this philosophy |
| 1:27.4 | But to also enact it and to allow it to change your life for the better which seems like a pretty good deal to me |
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