Losing Control & Finding Freedom - The Stoic Paradox

Do you like to be in control? Does your desire for control limit your freedom? In this episode, Danny and Randy discuss losing control and finding freedom.  Subscribe to ESP's YouTube Channel! Thanks for listening!  Do you have a question you want answered in a future episode? If so, send your question to: [email protected]

This episode is a replay from The Existential Stoic library. Enjoy! Science fiction books and movies often imagine futures with amazing inventions, technological marvels, and other advances that are currently impossible. Will any of the futures these stories imagine actually become reality? In this episode, Danny and Randy discuss whether the future will happen like science fiction predicts.Subscribe to ESP's YouTube Channel! Thanks for listening!  Do you have a question you want answered in a future episode? If so, send your question to: [email protected]

This episode is a replay from The Existential Stoic library. Enjoy! Is how you think influencing how you feel? Are there thoughts we should all avoid? What types of thinking are most harmful?  In this episode, Danny and Randy discuss 3 thoughts that will ruin your life.We reference the following book in this episode: “How to Make Yourself Happy, and Remarkably Less Disturbable,” by Albert Ellis, PhD.Subscribe to ESP's YouTube Channel! Thanks for listening!  Do you have a question you want answered in a future episode? If so, send your question to: [email protected] 

Do you look for meaning or purpose through your job? Is there more to life than work? In this episode, Danny and Randy discuss finding meaning beyond your career.Subscribe to ESP's YouTube Channel! Thanks for listening!  Do you have a question you want answered in a future episode? If so, send your question to: [email protected]

This episode is a replay from The Existential Stoic library. Enjoy! Are you waiting for the perfect moment to make a big change in your life? Have you ever put your own desires, wants, or happiness on hold because the time just wasn’t right? In this episode, Danny and Randy discuss why you should stop wasting life waiting for the perfect moment.Subscribe to ESP's YouTube Channel! Thanks for listening!  Do you have a question you want answered in a future episode? If so, send your question to: [email protected]

This episode is a replay from The Existential Stoic library. Enjoy! Are you special? Do you think you’re unique and that you will impact the world? What if you’re wrong? In this episode, Danny and Randy discuss why you’re not special and why that’s the good news.Subscribe to ESP's YouTube Channel! Thanks for listening!  Do you have a question you want answered in a future episode? If so, send your question to: [email protected]

Is life meaningless? Is everything a matter of interpretation, perspective? In this episode, Danny and Randy discuss why Camus thought life is absurd.Subscribe to ESP's YouTube Channel! Thanks for listening!  Do you have a question you want answered in a future episode? If so, send your question to: [email protected]

This episode is a replay from The Existential Stoic library. Enjoy! Has someone ever told you that you should try meditation? What’s the point of meditation? Danny and Randy discuss Shunryu Suzuki’s “Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind.”Subscribe to ESP's YouTube Channel! Thanks for listening!  Do you have a question you want answered in a future episode? If so, send your question to: [email protected]

This episode is a replay from The Existential Stoic library. Enjoy! Do you have a highly critical inner-voice? Does your inner voice say things to you that you would never say to a friend? Why is it so difficult to practice self-compassion? Danny and Randy discuss self-compassion.Subscribe to ESP's YouTube Channel! Thanks for listening!  Do you have a question you want answered in a future episode? If so, send your question to: [email protected]

Self-help books tell us to go after the life we want, but what if that’s wrong? Is it possible to want the life you get? In this episode, Danny and Randy discuss how to want the life you get.Subscribe to ESP's YouTube Channel! Thanks for listening!  Do you have a question you want answered in a future episode? If so, send your question to: [email protected]