The Stoic Handbook · Jon Brooks
Make Stoicism something you do.
I’m Jon Brooks. I teach practical Stoicism for the moments when you know better, but still struggle to act on it.
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Overthinking & uncertainty
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Knowing Is Not Doing
Take the thing you know and do not do. Do not fix it. Shrink it to the smallest version that still counts, one page, one set, one message, five minutes, and do only that, every day this week.
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The Stoic Handbook · Jon Brooks
Knowing Is Not Doing
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Take the thing you know and do not do. Do not fix it. Shrink it to the smallest version that still counts, one page, one set, one message, five minutes, and do only that, every day this week.
The thing I know and don’t do:
The smallest version that still counts:
Excerpt from Week 33 in the Stoic Vault, by Jon Brooks.
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