Welcome to the Commune Podcast.

My name is Jeff Krasno.

Today I am excited to bring you yet another wonderful lesson from the Commune Library,

and that's a slightly biased assessment given that today's episode is an excerpt from my program,

titled Stoic Meditations.

So my initial introduction to Stoicism came at the hands of my long-suffering wife, Skyler,

who often calls me Stoic due to my somewhat unflappable demeanor in response to cars full of screaming

daughters or when unforeseen misfortune strikes. Last year our house was quite literally

struck by lightning and the only superpower that was conferred by this bolt from the sky was apparently the

ability to calmly extinguish the ensuing electrical fire and browse Zillow for a suitable

replacement home. The unemotional endurance of hardship, however, belies the true nature of stoicism, which is a brilliant and dynamic philosophy of personal ethics founded in the third century BC.

Stoicism is a system of logic and rationality applied to virtue.

Stoicism lays out a path to eudaimonia, this Greek term for flourishing or well-being.

A eudaimonia is achieved through living and ethical life, one in accordance with nature, and through practicing

the cardinal virtues of wisdom, justice, courage, and moderation. Today's episode is an

exploration of these four core stoic virtues. So as you may know, in addition to being a podcast,

Commune is also a video course platform featuring a wide range of programs from

top teachers on personal growth, yoga, meditation, spirituality, functional medicine, nutrition,

and social impact.

Essentially, everything that you need in your life to be holistically well.

So to begin watching my course on stoicism, you can go to one commune.com slash stoic.

There you can sign up for a free trial to commune membership, which enables you to sample the entire commune buffet of courses.

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