The Stoic Handbook with Jon Brooks

Stoicism is Not a Dead Philosophy

Jon Brooks

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I was recently alerted to the following tweet by Tucker Max:

"I've been trying to tell this to my friends for years. There is a reason it's a dead philosophy. "

He cited a study that had the following conclusion: 

A naive endorsement of stoic ideology might have negative wellbeing consequence.


In this episode, I dig into this study, Tucker Max, and the misconceptions of Stoicism to get to the bottom of all this. 

Does Stoicism cause more harm than good?

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