Phil and Steve talk about Memento Mori, a piece of stoic philosophy that encourages you to keep your death in mind. As such, the discussion revolves around death, the purpose of life, suicide, and death as a framing device for life.
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References
- Memento Mori – Remember your death
- Anna Karenina
- The Concept Phil was reaching for was Ennui
- Education Inflation
- Stoicism
- Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
- The Obstacle is the Way – Ryan Holiday
- Steven Pressfield’s “Resistance”
- Decision Fatigue
- Phil’s Really Old Post on Secular Reincarnation from his first-ever blog
- /r/antiwork
- Ikigai
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