Episode 36: Persist and Resist

Epictetus broke Stoicism down into three disciplines 1. Desire 2. Action 3. Assent. On this episode we'll introduce the three disciplines and focus in desire. If we want to live a happy life, the first thing we need to master is our desire and aversions. We need to ensure that the things we want to happen and the things we don't want to happen are things that are within our power to control. Frustration and anger will arise if we expect things outside our power to go the way we want.
Readings: A Selection of the Discourses of Epictetus http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10661/10661-h/10661-h.htm
Massimo Pigliucci's blog How to be a Stoic https://howtobeastoic.wordpress.com/2015/03/27/the-three-stoic-disciplines/
https://howtobeastoic.wordpress.com/2016/09/08/the-three-topoi-and-the-three-disciplines/