Daily Stoic

A Month of the BEST Lessons from Marcus Aurelius

You always have the power to have no opinion. Things are not asking to be judged by you. Don't turn this into something. The fewer opinions you have, the fewer judgments you make, the more you're able to just leave things as they are, the happier you will be, the more productive you will be, the more focused you will be, and the easier you will be to get along with.

Fresh Air

Humorist Annabelle Gurwitch faces stage 4 cancer, finds ‘unexpected joys’

I can't go on. I'll go on. And I really did not know how I could go from I can't go on to I'll go on. And that's when I started thinking about this idea of devoting myself to everyday joys or like cultivating these tiny victories, like just having a different metric for what would make me happy or also how I could stay engaged in life?

TED Radio Hour

Curious stories of coexistence

And so I can be on one side of the river looking across the river, watching a family of otters do its thing through binoculars or a camera. And they're absolutely unfazed.

EconTalk

The Power of Introverts (with Susan Cain)

She explains why introversion isn't the same thing as shyness and she speaks of the many benefits of solitude and silent contemplation.