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Podcast: Modern Meditations - Stoicism For The Real World
Episode: #27 - Equanimity Series - Preference & Attachment, Disturbing TLC Shows, Bonaparte's Strategy for Letting Go, Finding 'Enough', Child Actors vs Buddhist Monks & Exposure Therapy
Description: Send us Fan MailOne of the most powerful tools in the Stoic arsenal for creating equanimity in our lives is understanding the difference between preferring something and being attached to it. In this episode we explore one of the great examples of this in history, namely Napoleon Bonaparte's temperament on his final exile to Saint Helena. (It will make you hear the song, "Viva La Vida" by Coldplay in a whole new light. Then we go through the way that our attachments can be put into their proper place, by talking about some of t...