Should You Suppress Your Desires?
02/12/25 • 5 min
The most common misunderstanding about Stoicism is that it’s all about suppressing or burying our emotions.
This tends to come from the confusion between Stoicism (upper case ‘S’) and stoicism (lower case ‘s’); the former is the ancient Greek philosophy that we learn about and practice, the latter is simply a “stiff-upper-lip” coping style.
In this episode, we look at why it's better to understand and process our emotions rather than dismiss and suppress them.
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The most common misunderstanding about Stoicism is that it’s all about suppressing or burying our emotions.
This tends to come from the confusion between Stoicism (upper case ‘S’) and stoicism (lower case ‘s’); the former is the ancient Greek philosophy that we learn about and practice, the latter is simply a “stiff-upper-lip” coping style.
In this episode, we look at why it's better to understand and process our emotions rather than dismiss and suppress them.
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☀️ Start your next 10 days like a Stoic with morning routines that take only 10 minutes to complete.
Free Stoic 10-day series: https://whatisstoicism.com/10days
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Examples Of Stoicism In The Wild
It can be useful to find parallels between our philosophical pursuits that are inspired by ancient practices and the more modern messages we’re exposed to in our daily lives.
Relating things like art, sport, and entertainment to Stoic principles often helps us to remember the concepts and perhaps even better understand how they pertain to modern life.
In this episode, we look at two such examples.
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The Road To Stoicism (Interview With Via Stoica's Benny Voncken)
In this episode I talk to Benny Voncken, a writer, speaker, and practicing Stoic who's originally from the Netherlands.
He's also the co-founder of an online Stoicism platform called Via Stoica, which offers personalized Stoic coaching services, an online Stoic community, live conversations on X, and their own Via Stoica podcast.
I really enjoyed talking with Benny. In the conversation, he shares some of the difficulties he's been through that led to him taking Stoicism seriously as a philosophy of life and how he now uses that experience to help others in his work as a Stoic coach. I hope you enjoy the episode.
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☀️ Start your next 10 days like a Stoic with morning routines that take only 10 minutes to complete.
Free Stoic 10-day series: https://whatisstoicism.com/10days
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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