Café del Weirdo: How To Think Like Socrates with Donald Robertson
We Can Be Weirdos
Global
4.9 • 793 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2026
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Donald Robertson is a psychotherapist and writer whose book 'How to Think Like Socrates' brings ancient wisdom into the modern world. Today, he shows us the strange habits, mental experiments, and street philosophy of Socrates (one of history’s original weirdos.)
Plus, some of the most fascinating ancient myths and mysteries that still endure today.
Host: Dan Schreiber
Guest: Donald Robertson
Producer: Cassie Merritt
Head of Podcasts: Al Riddell
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| 0:32.1 | This is a Global Player Original podcast. |
| 0:40.3 | Oh! Global Player Original Podcast Hey everyone. Hey, Cafe del Weirdo. |
| 1:01.2 | This is the offshoot show of We can Be Weirdos where we put down the bat shit list. |
| 1:06.4 | We tuck that away. |
| 1:07.7 | And we just sit here in this beautiful, wonderful, and not even remotely real |
| 1:11.8 | cafe to have a coffee with someone I just want to sit down with, find out more about a subject |
| 1:18.1 | they're an expert in. And we got a really good one today coming up. I'm just waiting for our |
| 1:23.5 | guest to arrive, but his name is Donald Robertson. And he's a cognitive behavioral psychotherapist, but he is also the author of many brilliant books |
| 1:33.6 | about stoicism, about ancient Greek philosophy, about ancient Roman philosophy. |
| 1:38.6 | So he's written a book, which is How to Think Like a Roman Emperor, which is about the philosophy of Marcus Aurelius. |
| 1:46.2 | Many of you might have read Meditations. |
| 1:48.3 | He's written a book about stoicism and The Art of Happiness. |
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