This Is The Point of Philosophy | You're Wasting Your Life
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🗓️ 7 November 2025
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What’s the point? What is philosophy for?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Daily Stoic Podcast, where each day we bring you a stoic-inspired meditation |
| 0:11.7 | designed to help you find strength and insight and wisdom into everyday life. |
| 0:18.8 | Each one of these episodes is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy that has guided some of |
| 0:24.2 | history's greatest men and women to help you learn from them, to follow in their example, |
| 0:33.0 | and to start your day off with a little dose of courage and discipline and justice and wisdom. |
| 0:40.3 | For more, visitdailystoic.com. |
| 0:59.4 | This is the point of philosophy. |
| 1:05.9 | What's the point? What is philosophy for? Is it for impressing people? Is it for exercising your brain? Is it to land a job in a university teaching philosophy? |
| 1:17.1 | Certainly, it's not nodding along to a podcast or an Instagram video or a daily email. |
| 1:21.9 | Philosophy is not supposed to pump you up or make you feel good. |
| 1:28.3 | The point of philosophy, stoic philosophy anyway, is to make you a better person, to make your life better, |
| 1:34.4 | and through that, to lift up the lives of the people around you. It was self-help in the truest sense to help you live a good life and be a good person. But this is obviously easier said than |
| 1:41.9 | done, because first you have to learn what the Stoics |
| 1:44.5 | have to teach you, which is a lot, and then you have to apply it, putting ancient ideas |
| 1:49.5 | into modern practice. |
| 1:51.6 | And there's a lot to Stoicism, and it can feel overwhelming, and it has been overwhelming |
| 1:56.1 | to people for thousands of years. |
| 1:58.8 | So where do you start? |
| 2:00.3 | How do you put St stoicism into practice? |
| 2:02.5 | Well, this is exactly what we answer in Stoicism 101, ancient philosophy for your actual life. |
| 2:09.8 | A 14-day course designed to help you start integrating these ideas into your daily life. |
| 2:15.5 | As I said, it is a 14-day course designed to help kickstart your study and practice of Stoicism to introduce you to Mark Surrealis and Seneca and Epictetus and the other Stoics to learn what made them great, what we can learn from them, what you should read, and how to read it. And think about what it would be worth to be able to put these ideas in practice, to get upset with your spouse less, to be anxious less, to be stronger, to be more resilient, to be able to bounce |
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