Nancy Sherman | Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience

In this episode, I speak to Nancy Sherman the author of the new book Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience. Nancy has a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Harvard and has worked with the military for several decades in connection with Stoic ethics, posttraumatic stress, and moral injury. Sherman is a renowned expert in ancient and modern ethics, she relates how Stoic methods of examining beliefs and perceptions can help us correct distortions in what we believe, see, and feel. Her study reveals a profound insight about the Stoics: They never believed, as Stoic popularizers often hold, that rugged self-reliance or indifference to the world around us is at the heart of living well. We are at home in the world, they insisted when we are connected to each other in cooperative efforts. We build resilience and goodness through our deepest relationships.

In this interview, Nancy and I discuss: 

• The Rise of Stoicism
• Finding Calm
• Managing Emotions
• The Art of Stoic Living
• A Call for a Healthy Modern Stoicism and much more

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