Episode 10 – Stop wanting and shed your anxiety
All anxieties stem from the fundamental error of wanting something we cannot want. Wishing and hoping for a different reality, where things or events are more favorable to us is nonsensical. Another reality doesn’t exist. Things can’t be any different. So it we can learn to accept the way things are and not wish for things out of our control, […]
Episode 9 – Reclaim your time from habits
We are not guilty of not having enough time. We are guilty of spending time in the wrong places. Although habits can be a good thing, can we reclaim some time form our habits to divert towards more virtuous ventures? 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 – Weekly exercise (January 5, 2020)
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 […]
Episode 8 – Tend to your own affairs
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 […]
Stoicism for a Better Life – Weekly exercise (December 29, 2019)
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 […]
Episode 7 – Don’t judge a book by it’s overalls
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 […]
Episode 6 – Cast away your judgments.
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 […]
Stoicism for a Better Life – Weekly exercise (December 22, 2019)
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 […]