Hello everybody, I'm Jemma Spake and welcome back to the psychology of your 20s, the podcast where we talk through the biggest changes, moments and transitions of our 20s and what they mean for our psychology.

Hello everybody.

Welcome back to the show.

Welcome back to the podcast.

It is so great to have you here back for another episode as we, of course, break down

the psychology of our 20s.

Today, we are talking about an ancient philosophy, which I think

normally conjures up an image of bottling up your emotions, pretending not to care, pushing

through the hard times with no signs of suffering, no signs of emotion, you know, rugged men, a stiff upper lip. That is,

of course, the philosophy of stoicism, as many of us think we know it. As you will come to

discover in this episode, stoicism has a bit of a PR problem. It is not all about suppressing negative emotions

and suffering in silence. It is actually one of the most empowering mindsets that we can develop

in our 20s because of how it really helps us just ride the waves of chaos and of change that this decade is going to

bring us. I personally feel like so much of my 20s has involved me trying to control everything

and make everything perfect and make everything just as I imagined it. If you can relate,

I feel like this is the episode for you, because stoicism basically says, stop forcing it.

Stop trying to change the things you cannot change. This 3,000-year-old philosophy is all about

instead mastering what we can control. We can control our response to the world.

We can control our actions, our attitude, our self-control. So today, let's talk about it.

Let's break down what we can control, what we can't, the four cardinal virtues of stoicism, that being

wisdom, justice, courage, temperance, and how exactly you and I can apply them in our

20s and beyond for a more peaceful, centered life. I also want to talk about, of course,

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