Hello there, Happy New Year to you all. I hope the new year brings you the wisdom and tranquillity you seek. Since I mentioned it last week, quite a few more of you have reached out to me and shared your resolutions. First off, thank you guys. Keep sending me those emails, messages, Tweets, comments, etc… All I want to […]
Virtue is to be found in all our actions and every little effort counts. Does judging others make you more virtuous? Want to send in a voice message to Anderson Silver? You may have your voicemail featured or answered on a Stoicism for a Better Life episode. Not a fan of Spotify? Stoicism for a Better Life is available on […]
Hello there, First off, Happy Holidays and I hope you got to relax and spend some time with loved ones to cultivate those relationships that are important to you. With the end of the year approaching, many of you have reached out with your New Year’s resolution. So this week, and the next, I wanted to offer some additional motivation […]
You would be surprised how often we let looks affect our judgment about people, things, events, etc. To be a good, fair and just human being, we must learn to shed our biases based on looks and try and see the world more objectively. Want to send in a voice message to Anderson Silver? You may have your voicemail featured […]
As Shakespeare famously said, ” there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking it makes it so.” Things and events external to our judgments and thoughts are just that: Externals. They don’t actually go in your brain and make you think one way nor the other. So events by themselves are not good or bad, only our judgments about […]
Hello there, This week on Stoicism for a Better Life, let us seek guidance on what virtue actually is and is not from Seneca’s dialogue Tranquility of Mind XVII 8-9: “Cato used to refresh his mind with wine after he had wearied it with application to affairs of state, and Scipio would move his triumphal and soldierly limbs to the […]
Have you ever stopped to consider that anger is merely a refusal to accept what is actually happening? As far as us human beings can perceive, there is only one timeline with one reality happening going in one direction. If there is one reality, that we can’t change no matter what, then complaining about it is our own fault, for […]
Virtue is being rational, honest and honourable. Spending our very precious time in a virtuous way means working for the betterment of humanity. But acts of virtue do not need to be grandiose or impactful in a major way. Virtue can be found and practiced everywhere. We can even find it in the entertainment we choose. Want to send in […]
Hello there, This week on Stoicism for a Better Life, let us rationally question our previous rational decisions with some guidance from Epictetus Discourses’ IV 4 13: “It is a general rule that externals of any kind, if we attach importance to them, make us subject to somebody. It makes no difference whether we wish to be a senator, or […]
Virtue is being rational, honest and honourable. Spending our very precious time in a virtuous way means working for the betterment of humanity. But acts of virtue do not need to be grandiose or impactful in a major way. Virtue can be found and practiced everywhere, including in what you eat. Want to send in a voice message to Anderson […]