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In this episode I sit down and talk with comedian and comedy writer Ori Halevy. Ori, originally from Israel, is prominent in the large English speaking comedy in Berlin. We had a fun conversation talking about philosophy, comedy, anxiety, and why you need to laugh at life. You can find him on instagram at https://instgram.com/orihalevy_bigoldjew and https://instagram.com/epicomedyberlin
Do you think that you have strengths and weaknesses? What if I told you that you don’t? Today I want to talk about how strengths and weaknesses are all a matter of perspective and context.
"Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we often find excellence in our imperfections."
—Harriet Braiker
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“It’s better for us to laugh at life than to cry over it.”
— Seneca
Yo...
“You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think."
— Marcus Aurelius
"The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately."
This weeks episode is an interview with Gavan Wilhite. Gavan has been an entrepreneur for over a decade and has had a few successes and a few misses. His most successful exit was when his company AltSpaceVR was purchased by Microsoft. We discuss how to use stoicism...
"Everything is in a state of flux, and nothing remains the same. So be prepared for change, and embrace it as a natural part of life."
“The mind must be give...
You can find more information at his website designingthemind.org
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“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
“We tell lies, yet it is easy to show that lying is immoral.”
— Epictetus
“All greatness comes from suffering.”
— Naval Ravikant
Unexpected
"A man who is a master of patience is master of everything else."
— Epictetus
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear."
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Courage
Listen to episode 181 - Askers and Guessers
Here's the transcript for this episode. Sorry if there are some bad translations. I tried to fix as many as I could. :)
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[00:00:09] Erick: Hello, friends. My name is Erick Cloward and welcome to the Stoic Coffee Break. The Stoic Coffee Break is a weekly podcast where I take an aspect of stoicism and do my best to break it do...
"We must not let the impressions carry us away so that we are not in control of ourselves, but we must receive them in such a way a...
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