The Stoic Handbook with Jon Brooks
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The Stoic Handbook with Jon Brooks
The 4 Stoic Virtues: Your Compass for a Meaningful Life
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Ever feel like you are drifting without a clear sense of what actually matters? The Stoics had an answer: four virtues to steer by.
In this episode I break down the four cardinal virtues, wisdom, courage, justice and temperance, that Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus used to handle everything from private anxiety to running an empire.
Wisdom is seeing reality clearly and focusing on what is yours to control. Courage is acting on your principles, which matters far more than physical bravery. Justice is treating others fairly, and the Stoics thought it was the source of all the other virtues. Temperance is balance in a world built to pull you toward excess. I give a practical daily exercise for each, with modern examples, and make the case for why these 2,000-year-old ideas still hold up.
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