Brigid Delaney’s Life Changing Year of Living Like a Stoic
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🗓️ 2 October 2024
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
Brigid Delaney was at a unique point in her life and found herself looking for answers around life’s deepest questions: What does it mean to be a good person? How do we stop letting the things out of our control rule our emotions? Can our anger be tamed? After learning more about Stoicism, Brigid decided to let the ancient wisdom from Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, and Seneca guide her decisions for a year.
While in Australia on tour, Ryan had the chance to meet Brigid in person and talk with her about why Stoicism resonated with her, how to successfully apply Stoicism to modern problems, and the common misconceptions around Stoicism being exclusively for men. To learn more about Brigid’s experience, check out her book Reasons Not to Worry: How to Be Stoic in Chaotic Times.
Brigid Delaney is the author of Reasons Not to Worry: How to Be Stoic in Chaotic Times and Wellmania: Extreme Misadventures in the Search for Wellness. Be sure to check out the Netflix series Brigid co-create, inspired by her book Wellmania!
📚 Books Mentioned:
Reasons Not to Worry: How to Be Stoic in Chaotic Times by Brigid Delaney
The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday
On Anger: De Ira by Seneca
The Therapy of Desire by Martha Nussbaum
Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero by James Romm
Follow Brigid Delaney on X @ BrigidWD
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| 0:11.3 | I think the Stoics can get misinterpreted as masking or |
| 0:15.2 | hiding their emotions, but actually as we've talked about so many times here they |
| 0:18.8 | believed in the power of identifying, understanding, and directing your emotional impulses. |
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