How to Think Like a Roman Emperor

I’m doing a live conversation on Substack with Phil Yanov on How to Do Stoic Therapy for the Conversations with Modern Stoicism series.

We’ll be talking about how Stoic philosophy can be applied in practice — not just as a set of ideas, but as a way of working with emotions, values, habits, and everyday problems.

Friday, May 15
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Just as the propositions, “It is day,” and “It is night,” are full of meaning when separated, but meaningless if united; so also, granted that for you to take the larger share at a dinner is good for your body, still, it is bad for the maintenance of the proper kind of social feeling. When, therefore, you are eating with another person, remember to regard, not merely the va...

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In this episode, I chat with Claudia Mills, an emerita professor of philosophy and award-winning author of more than sixty books for young readers. Her new novel, Calliope Callisto Clark and the Search for Wisdom, is about a difficult young student who joins a philosophy club seeking the wisdom she needs to keep her beloved but equally difficult dog.

Many people come to Stoicism through books, quotations, podcasts, or online articles. That can be a very good beginning. Sooner or later, though, most of us discover that understanding Stoic ideas is not the same as being able to apply them when we are stressed and under pressure. That is where one-to-one coaching can sometimes help.

I began my training in counselling...