Welcome to Episode 36 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "Ignoring what goes on in other people’s souls—no one ever came to grief that way. But if you won’t keep track of what your own soul’s doing, how can you not be unhappy?" Book 2, Chapter 8 "It was for the best. So Nature had no choice but to do it." Book 4, Chapter 9 "Love the discipline you know, and let it support you. Entrust everything willingly to the gods, and then make your way through life—no one’s master and no one’s slave." Book 4, Chapter 31   We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast and Instagram at @tamepodcast. ____________________________________________________   Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life.   Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Episode 34 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "So other people hurt me? That’s their problem. Their character and actions are not mine. What is done to me is ordained by nature, what I do by my own." Book 5, Chapter 25 "“Everything is just an impression.” —Monimus the Cynic. And the response is obvious enough. But the point is a useful one, if you take it for what it’s worth." Book 2, Chapter 15 "Disgraceful: for the soul to give up when the body is still going strong." Book 6, Chapter 29   We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast and Instagram at @tamepodcast. ____________________________________________________   Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life.   Resources mentioned in this episode: [Book] The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley [Book] The Courage to be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitako Koga [Book] 7 Strategies for Wealth and Happiness by Jim Rohn   Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Episode 33 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "The foolishness of people who are surprised by anything that happens. Like travelers amazed at foreign customs." Book 12, Chapter 13 "Someone despises me. That’s their problem. Mine: not to do or say anything despicable. Someone hates me. Their problem. Mine: to be patient and cheerful with everyone, including them. Ready to show them their mistake. Not spitefully, or to show off my own self-control, but in an honest, upright way. Like Phocion (if he wasn’t just pretending). That’s what we should be like inside, and never let the gods catch us feeling anger or resentment. As long as you do what’s proper to your nature, and accept what the world’s nature has in store—as long as you work for others’ good, by any and all means—what is there that can harm you?" Book 11, Chapter 13 "Some things are rushing into existence, others out of it. Some of what now exists is already gone. Change and flux constantly remake the world, just as the incessant progression of time remakes eternity." Book 6, Chapter 15   We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast and Instagram at @tamepodcast. ____________________________________________________   Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life.   Resources mentioned in this episode: [Book] The Courage to be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitako Koga   Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Episode 32 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "The lamp shines until it is put out, without losing its gleam, and yet in you it all gutters out so early—truth, justice, self-control?" Book 12, Chapter 15 "At all times, look at the thing itself—the thing behind the appearance—and unpack it by analysis: cause substance purpose and the length of time it exists." Book 12, Chapter 18 " Don’t be irritated at people’s smell or bad breath. What’s the point? With that mouth, with those armpits, they’re going to produce that odor. —But they have a brain! Can’t they figure it out? Can’t they recognize the problem? So you have a brain as well. Good for you. Then use your logic to awaken his. Show him. Make him realize it. If he’ll listen, then you’ll have solved the problem. Without anger. " Book 5, Chapter 28   We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast and Instagram at @tamepodcast. ____________________________________________________   Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life.   Resources mentioned in this episode: [Book] Man's Search for Meaning by Victor E. Frankl   Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Episode 31 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstances, revert at once to yourself, and don’t lose the rhythm more than you can help. You’ll have a better grasp of the harmony if you keep on going back to it." Book 6, Chapter 11 "Everywhere, at each moment, you have the option:• to accept this event with humility• to treat this person as he should be treated• to approach this thought with care, so that nothing irrational creeps in." Book 7, Chapter 54 "Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone— those that are now, and those to come. Existence flows past us like a river: the “what” is in constant flux, the “why” has a thousand variations. Nothing is stable, not even what’s right here. The infinity of past and future gapes before us—a chasm whose depths we cannot see. So it would take an idiot to feel self-importance or distress. Or any indignation, either. As if the things that irritate us lasted." Book 5, Chapter 23 "...progress for a rational mind means not accepting falsehood or uncertainty in its perceptions, making unselfish actions its only aim, seeking and shunning only the things it has control over, embracing what nature demands of it—the nature in which it participates, as the leaf’s nature does in the tree’s." Book 8, Chapter 7   We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast and Instagram at @tamepodcast. ____________________________________________________   Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life.     Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Episode 30 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "Practice even what seems impossible. The left hand is useless at almost everything, for lack of practice. But it guides the reins better than the right. From practice." Book 12, Chapter 6 "When faced with people’s bad behaviour, turn around and ask when you have acted like that. When you saw money as a good, or pleasure, or social position. Your anger will subside as soon as you recognise that they acted under compulsion (what else could they do?). Or remove the compulsion, if you can." Book 12, Chapter 9 "To see things as they are. Substance, cause and purpose." Book 12, Chapter 10   We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast and Instagram at @tamepodcast. ____________________________________________________   Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life. Things mentioned in this episode: [Book] Flow by Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi [Book] The Chimp Paradox by Steven Peters   Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Episode 29 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "Stop whatever you’re doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won’t be able to do this anymore?" Book 10, Chapter 29 "When faced with people’s bad behaviour, turn around and ask when you have acted like that. When you saw money as a good, or pleasure, or social position. Your anger will subside as soon as you recognise that they acted under compulsion (what else could they do?). Or remove the compulsion, if you can." Book 10, Chapter 30 "To live a good life: We have the potential for it. If we can learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference." Book 11, Chapter 16 We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast and Instagram at @tamepodcast. ____________________________________________________   Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life. Things mentioned in this episode: [Book] 7 Strategies for Wealth and Happiness by Jim Rohn   Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Episode 28 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "It’s all in how you perceive it. You’re in control. You can dispense with misperception at will, like rounding the point. Serenity, total calm, safe anchorage." Book 12, Chapter 22 "Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives it." Book 10, Chapter 20 "My mind. What is it? What am I making of it? What am I using it for? Is it empty of thought? Isolated and torn loose from those around it? Melted into flesh and blended with it, so that it shares its urges?" Book 10, Chapter 24 We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast and Instagram at @tamepodcast. ____________________________________________________   Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life. Things mentioned in this episode: [Book] Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday [Book] The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle [Book] Taming your Gremlin by Rick Carson   Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Episode 27 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "Today I escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions—not outside." Book 9, Chapter 13   "Things wait outside us, hover at the door. They keep to themselves. Ask them who they are and they don’t know, they can give no account of themselves. What accounts for them? The mind does." Book 9, Chapter 15   "Nature gives and nature takes away. Anyone with sense and humility will tell her, “Give and take as you please,” not out of defiance, but out of obedience and goodwill." Book 10, Chapter 14   We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast and Instagram at @tamepodcast. ____________________________________________________   Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life.     Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Episode 26 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "And you can also commit injustice by doing nothing." Book 9, Chapter 5 "That before long you’ll be no one, and nowhere. Like all the things you see now. All the people now living. Everything’s destiny is to change, to be transformed, to perish. So that new things can be born." Book 12, Chapter 21 "Blot out your imagination. Turn your desire to stone. Quench your appetites. Keep your mind centered on itself." Book 9, Chapter 7 We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast and Instagram at @tamepodcast. ____________________________________________________   Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life. Things mentioned in this episode: [Book] Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse   Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen