Know Yourself
Change that lasts: habits, discipline without self-hatred, resilience, and a life that means something.
For: anyone who has started over on January 1st more than once.
Start
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01Quick readQuiz3 min
How Should I Live?
Every philosophy starts with one question: how should I live?
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02ReadQuiz5 min
Stoicism for Real Life
Stoicism in ten minutes: control what you can, let go of the rest.
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03Quick readQuiz4 min
Memory: How to Make Things Stick
Memory is trainable; so is what you choose to remember.
Understand
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04Deep diveQuiz26 min
Why Most Self-Improvement Fails, and What the Behaviour-Change Science Says Instead
Why most self-improvement fails, and what the behaviour-change science says.
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05Deep diveQuiz23 min
Self-Discipline Without Self-Hate: Willpower, Ego Depletion and Self-Compassion
Discipline that comes from self-respect, not self-punishment.
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06Deep diveQuiz27 min
Resilience: What Decades of Research Actually Show
Resilience: what the research says about bouncing back.
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07Deep diveQuiz23 min
Character: What Strengths, Virtues and Grit Research Gets Right and Wrong
Character, grit and what predicts doing well over a lifetime.
Go deep
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08Deep diveQuiz25 min
Stoicism, Properly: The Discourses, the Meditations, and a Daily Practice
Stoicism, properly: the full philosophy, not the poster.
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09Deep diveQuiz24 min
A Life That Means Something: Values, Purpose, and the Science of Meaning
A life that means something: what humans have found, across traditions.
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10Deep diveQuiz28 min
The Good Life Across Traditions: Aristotle, Confucius, the Buddha and Epicurus
The good life according to Aristotle, Buddha, Confucius and the moderns.
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11Deep diveQuiz24 min
The Long Game: Designing a Life Across Decades
The long game: compounding in health, skill, money and relationships.
the Big Questions path; Meditations (Marcus Aurelius) and Man's Search for Meaning (Frankl).
Money and Work
How money, jobs and businesses actually work, so nobody can take advantage of what you don't know.