Jemma Spike

Again, this underlying philosophy and pillar that comes through this all.

It's also woven into things like rational emotive behavioral therapy, which focuses on changing self-defeating attitudes in people.

It's also involved in mindfulness.

It's involved in

family therapy systems as well.

The more you start looking for stoicism, the more you start searching for it, the more it ends up showing up in all these places and that have evidence of

helping people get better and for helping people be happier.

And I feel like now that you've listened to this episode, you will start seeing it everywhere as well.

It's just such a powerful way to live your life.

Yes, philosophically, but also psychologically.

Okay, before we go any further, we do have to talk about the criticisms.

I feel like I really wanted to butt in with a lot of them there, but I knew we were going to get to it.

We have to talk about the downsides here because no life philosophy is immune to some problems or some hiccups.

This one included.

The big part of it being the toxic philosophy.

positivity.

The idea that how you think about things will just change everything about the world.

And we know that's not true.

There's this core thing in stoicism of like, the world has to be dealt with as it is.

And you should not spend time imagining an ideal society and you should just focus on what you can do.