The 7 Best Stoicism Videos

For Productive Binge-Watching

Do you ever get a feeling of emptiness after spending hours binge-watching a TV show? I do, it can feel like eating junk food — enjoyable at the time but with no lasting benefit or satisfaction.

Binge-watching is what Robert Greene would call “dead time”:

While people wait for the right moment, there are two types of time: Dead time — where they are passive and biding and Alive time — where they are learning and acting and leveraging every second towards their intended future.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think it’s a bad thing to do every now and again (this part is key) in order to release some pressure and completely switch off from our busy lives.

But what about the rest of the time when we want to feel like we’re actually learning something, when we need lasting satisfaction? Well, we could do worse than watching one (or all!) of the following talks on Stoicism.

Massimo Pigliucci

Stoicism as a philosophy for an ordinary life — TEDxAthens

Description: How to change your life for the better by practicing ancient Greco-Roman philosophy as a way of life. Massimo Pigliucci has a PhD in Evolutionary Biology from the University of Connecticut and a PhD in…