Tame: Mind over Matter

Welcome to Episode 36 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "Ignoring what goes on in other people’s souls—no one ever came to grief that way. But if you won’t keep track of what your own soul’s doing, how can you not be unhappy?" Book 2, Chapter 8 "It was for the best. So Nature had no choice but to do it." Book 4, Chapter 9 "Love the discipline you know, and let it support you. Entrust everything willingly to the gods, and then make your way through life—no one’s master and no one’s slave." Book 4, Chapter 31   We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast and Instagram at @tamepodcast. ____________________________________________________   Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life.   Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Episode 34 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "So other people hurt me? That’s their problem. Their character and actions are not mine. What is done to me is ordained by nature, what I do by my own." Book 5, Chapter 25 "“Everything is just an impression.” —Monimus the Cynic. And the response is obvious enough. But the point is a useful one, if you take it for what it’s worth." Book 2, Chapter 15 "Disgraceful: for the soul to give up when the body is still going strong." Book 6, Chapter 29   We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast and Instagram at @tamepodcast. ____________________________________________________   Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life.   Resources mentioned in this episode: [Book] The Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley [Book] The Courage to be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitako Koga [Book] 7 Strategies for Wealth and Happiness by Jim Rohn   Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Episode 33 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "The foolishness of people who are surprised by anything that happens. Like travelers amazed at foreign customs." Book 12, Chapter 13 "Someone despises me. That’s their problem. Mine: not to do or say anything despicable. Someone hates me. Their problem. Mine: to be patient and cheerful with everyone, including them. Ready to show them their mistake. Not spitefully, or to show off my own self-control, but in an honest, upright way. Like Phocion (if he wasn’t just pretending). That’s what we should be like inside, and never let the gods catch us feeling anger or resentment. As long as you do what’s proper to your nature, and accept what the world’s nature has in store—as long as you work for others’ good, by any and all means—what is there that can harm you?" Book 11, Chapter 13 "Some things are rushing into existence, others out of it. Some of what now exists is already gone. Change and flux constantly remake the world, just as the incessant progression of time remakes eternity." Book 6, Chapter 15   We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast and Instagram at @tamepodcast. ____________________________________________________   Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life.   Resources mentioned in this episode: [Book] The Courage to be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitako Koga   Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Episode 32 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "The lamp shines until it is put out, without losing its gleam, and yet in you it all gutters out so early—truth, justice, self-control?" Book 12, Chapter 15 "At all times, look at the thing itself—the thing behind the appearance—and unpack it by analysis: cause substance purpose and the length of time it exists." Book 12, Chapter 18 " Don’t be irritated at people’s smell or bad breath. What’s the point? With that mouth, with those armpits, they’re going to produce that odor. —But they have a brain! Can’t they figure it out? Can’t they recognize the problem? So you have a brain as well. Good for you. Then use your logic to awaken his. Show him. Make him realize it. If he’ll listen, then you’ll have solved the problem. Without anger. " Book 5, Chapter 28   We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast and Instagram at @tamepodcast. ____________________________________________________   Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life.   Resources mentioned in this episode: [Book] Man's Search for Meaning by Victor E. Frankl   Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Episode 31 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstances, revert at once to yourself, and don’t lose the rhythm more than you can help. You’ll have a better grasp of the harmony if you keep on going back to it." Book 6, Chapter 11 "Everywhere, at each moment, you have the option:• to accept this event with humility• to treat this person as he should be treated• to approach this thought with care, so that nothing irrational creeps in." Book 7, Chapter 54 "Keep in mind how fast things pass by and are gone— those that are now, and those to come. Existence flows past us like a river: the “what” is in constant flux, the “why” has a thousand variations. Nothing is stable, not even what’s right here. The infinity of past and future gapes before us—a chasm whose depths we cannot see. So it would take an idiot to feel self-importance or distress. Or any indignation, either. As if the things that irritate us lasted." Book 5, Chapter 23 "...progress for a rational mind means not accepting falsehood or uncertainty in its perceptions, making unselfish actions its only aim, seeking and shunning only the things it has control over, embracing what nature demands of it—the nature in which it participates, as the leaf’s nature does in the tree’s." Book 8, Chapter 7   We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast and Instagram at @tamepodcast. ____________________________________________________   Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life.     Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Episode 30 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "Practice even what seems impossible. The left hand is useless at almost everything, for lack of practice. But it guides the reins better than the right. From practice." Book 12, Chapter 6 "When faced with people’s bad behaviour, turn around and ask when you have acted like that. When you saw money as a good, or pleasure, or social position. Your anger will subside as soon as you recognise that they acted under compulsion (what else could they do?). Or remove the compulsion, if you can." Book 12, Chapter 9 "To see things as they are. Substance, cause and purpose." Book 12, Chapter 10   We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast and Instagram at @tamepodcast. ____________________________________________________   Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life. Things mentioned in this episode: [Book] Flow by Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi [Book] The Chimp Paradox by Steven Peters   Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen    

Welcome to Episode 29 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "Stop whatever you’re doing for a moment and ask yourself: Am I afraid of death because I won’t be able to do this anymore?" Book 10, Chapter 29 "When faced with people’s bad behaviour, turn around and ask when you have acted like that. When you saw money as a good, or pleasure, or social position. Your anger will subside as soon as you recognise that they acted under compulsion (what else could they do?). Or remove the compulsion, if you can." Book 10, Chapter 30 "To live a good life: We have the potential for it. If we can learn to be indifferent to what makes no difference." Book 11, Chapter 16 We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast and Instagram at @tamepodcast. ____________________________________________________   Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life. Things mentioned in this episode: [Book] 7 Strategies for Wealth and Happiness by Jim Rohn   Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Episode 28 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "It’s all in how you perceive it. You’re in control. You can dispense with misperception at will, like rounding the point. Serenity, total calm, safe anchorage." Book 12, Chapter 22 "Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives it." Book 10, Chapter 20 "My mind. What is it? What am I making of it? What am I using it for? Is it empty of thought? Isolated and torn loose from those around it? Melted into flesh and blended with it, so that it shares its urges?" Book 10, Chapter 24 We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast and Instagram at @tamepodcast. ____________________________________________________   Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life. Things mentioned in this episode: [Book] Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday [Book] The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle [Book] Taming your Gremlin by Rick Carson   Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Episode 27 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "Today I escaped from anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions—not outside." Book 9, Chapter 13   "Things wait outside us, hover at the door. They keep to themselves. Ask them who they are and they don’t know, they can give no account of themselves. What accounts for them? The mind does." Book 9, Chapter 15   "Nature gives and nature takes away. Anyone with sense and humility will tell her, “Give and take as you please,” not out of defiance, but out of obedience and goodwill." Book 10, Chapter 14   We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast and Instagram at @tamepodcast. ____________________________________________________   Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life.     Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Episode 26 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "And you can also commit injustice by doing nothing." Book 9, Chapter 5 "That before long you’ll be no one, and nowhere. Like all the things you see now. All the people now living. Everything’s destiny is to change, to be transformed, to perish. So that new things can be born." Book 12, Chapter 21 "Blot out your imagination. Turn your desire to stone. Quench your appetites. Keep your mind centered on itself." Book 9, Chapter 7 We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast and Instagram at @tamepodcast. ____________________________________________________   Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life. Things mentioned in this episode: [Book] Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse   Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Episode 25 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "To stop talking about what the good man is like, and just be one." Book 10, Chapter 16 "Each of us needs what nature gives us, when nature gives it." Book 10, Chapter 20 "It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own. If a god appeared to us—or a wise human being, even —and prohibited us from concealing our thoughts or imagining anything without immediately shouting it out, we wouldn’t make it through a single day. That’s how much we value other people’s opinions—instead of our own" Book 12, Chapter 4 We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast and Instagram at @tamepodcast. ____________________________________________________   Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life. Things mentioned in this episode: [Book] The Illusion of Free Will by Sam Harris     Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Tame Minis #05, a bite-sized version of the Tame podcast where Owen or Connor share a new helpful perspective you to consider and test in your own life. Today, as a small digression from interpreting Marcus Aurelius' Meditations, Owen discusses two of the 'uncomfortable decisions' actors must make, as theorised by Declan Donnellan in his book The Actor and the Target, and applies this acting advice to real life scenarios. We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast. ____________________________________________________ Sources used in this episode:   [Book] The Actor and the Target by Declan Donnellan Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life. Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Episode 24 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "Don’t waste the rest of your time here worrying about other people—unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing anything useful." Book 3, Chapter 4 "Remember: you shouldn’t be surprised that a fig tree produces figs, nor the world what it produces. A good doctor isn’t surprised when his patients have fevers, or a helmsman when the wind blows against him." Book 8, Chapter 15 "To erase false perceptions, tell yourself: I have it in me to keep my soul from evil, lust and all confusion. To see things as they are and treat them as they deserve. Don’t overlook this innate ability." Book 8, Chapter 29 We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast and Instagram at @tamepodcast. ____________________________________________________   Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life. Things mentioned in this episode: [Book] The Actor and the Target by Declan Donnellan [Book] Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari   Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Episode 23 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "Keep in mind that all rational things are related, and that to care for all human beings is part of being human. Which doesn’t mean we have to share their opinions. We should listen only to those whose lives conform to nature." Book 3, Chapter 4 "Our inward power, when it obeys nature, reacts to events by accommodating itself to what it faces—to what is possible. It needs no specific material. It pursues its own aims as circumstances allow; it turns obstacles into fuel. As a fire overwhelms what would have quenched a lamp. What’s thrown on top of the conflagration is absorbed, consumed by it—and makes it burn still higher." Book 4, Chapter 1 "The tranquillity that comes when you stop caring what they say. Or think, or do. Only what you do. To run straight for the finish line, unswerving." Book 4, Chapter 18 We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast and Instagram at @tamepodcast. ____________________________________________________   Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life. Things mentioned in this episode: [Short Story] The Egg by Andy Weir [Show] Mindhunter   Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Episode 22 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "You can hold your breath until you turn blue, but they’ll still go on doing it." Book 8, Chapter 4 "Look at who they really are, the people whose approval you long for, and what their minds are really like. Then you won’t blame the ones who make mistakes they can’t help, and you won’t feel a need for their approval. You will have seen the sources of both—their judgments and their actions." Book 7, Chapter 62 "Self-contraction: the mind’s requirements are satisfied by doing what we should, and by the calm it brings us." Book 7, Chapter 28 We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast and Instagram at @tamepodcast. ____________________________________________________   Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life. Things mentioned in this episode: [Book] The Preservation of Self in Everyday Life, Erving Goffman   Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Tame Minis #05, a bite-sized version of the Tame podcast where Owen or Connor discuss a single quote from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and share their subjective interpretation on how we can apply its lessons and logic to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today Owen discusses the following quote: "Discard your misperceptions. Stop being jerked like a puppet. Limit yourself to the present. Understand what happens—to you, to others. Analyze what exists, break it all down: material and cause. Anticipate your final hours. Other people’s mistakes? Leave them to their makers." Book 7, Chapter 29 We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast. ____________________________________________________ Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life. Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Episode 21 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "The mind is that which is roused and directed by itself. It makes of itself what it chooses. It makes what it chooses of its own experience." Book 6, Chapter 8 "Disgraceful: that the mind should control the face, should be able to shape and mold it as it pleases, but not shape and mold itself." Book 7, Chapter 37 "To feel affection for people even when they make mistakes is uniquely human. You can do it, if you simply recognize: that they’re human too, that they act out of ignorance, against their will, and that you’ll both be dead before long. And, above all, that they haven’t really hurt you. They haven’t diminished your ability to choose." Book 7, Chapter 22 We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast and Instagram at @tamepodcast. ____________________________________________________   Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life. Things mentioned in this episode: [Book] - Sophie's World   Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Episode 20 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "Forget the future. When and if it comes, you’ll have the same resources to draw on—the same logos." Book 7, Chapter 8 "'And why should we feel anger at the world? As if the world would notice!'" Book 7, Chapter 38 "Everywhere, at each moment, you have the option:• to accept this event with humility• to treat this person as he should be treated• to approach this thought with care, so that nothing irrational creeps in." Book 7, Chapter 54 We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast. ____________________________________________________   Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life.     Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Tame Minis #04, a bite-sized version of the Tame podcast where Owen or Connor discuss a single quote from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and share their subjective interpretation on how we can apply its lessons and logic to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today Owen discusses the following quote: "Constant awareness that everything is born from change. The knowledge that there is nothing nature loves more than to alter what exists and make new things like it. All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it. You think the only seeds are the ones that make plants or children? Go deeper." Book 4, Chapter 36 We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast. ____________________________________________________ Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life. Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Episode 19 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes: "To harvest life like standing stalks of grain. Grown and cut down in turn." Book 7, Chapter 40 "Wash yourself clean. With simplicity, with humility, with indifference to everything but right and wrong. Care for other human beings. Follow God." Book 7, Chapter 31 "Nature did not blend things so inextricably that you can’t draw your own boundaries—place your own well-being in your own hands." Book 7, Chapter 67 We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast. ____________________________________________________   Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life. Here's a list of things we referred to in this episode: [Subreddit] www.reddit.com/r/instagramreality     Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Tame Minis #03, a bite-sized version of the Tame podcast where Owen or Connor discuss a single quote from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and share their subjective interpretation on how we can apply its lessons and logic to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today Connor discusses the following quote: "You’ve given aid and they’ve received it. And yet, like an idiot, you keep holding out for more: to be credited with a Good Deed, to be repaid in kind. Why?" Book 7, Chapter 73 We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast. ____________________________________________________ Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life. Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Tame Minis #02, a bite-sized version of the Tame podcast where Owen or Connor discuss a single quote from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and share their subjective interpretation on how we can apply its lessons and logic to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today Owen discusses the following quote: "Is my intellect up to this? If so, then I’ll put it to work, like a tool provided by nature. And if it isn’t, then I’ll turn the job over to someone who can do better—unless I have no choice." Book 7, Chapter 5 We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast. ____________________________________________________ Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life. Things mentioned in this episode: [Book] Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill [Speaker] Jim Rohn Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Episode 18 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes: "What the body needs is stability. To be impervious to jolts in all it is and does. The cohesiveness and beauty that intelligence lends to the face—that’s what the body needs. But it should come without effort." Book 7, Chapter 60 "Time is a river, a violent current of events, glimpsed once and already carried past us, and another follows and is gone." Book 4, Chapter 43 "To watch the courses of the stars as if you revolved with them. To keep constantly in mind how the elements alter into one another. Thoughts like this wash off the mud of life below." Book 7, Chapter 47 We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast. ____________________________________________________   Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life. Here's a list of things we referred to in this episode: [Poem] Serenity Poem by Reinhold Niebuhr [Poem] "Sext", Horae Canonica by W H Auden [Book] Discipline Equals Freedom by Jocko Willink [Book] Man's Search for Meaning by Victor E Frankl [Book] Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut [Book] Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut [Movie] John Wick: Parabellum. Necessary to include? Listen man, I don't want to upset that guy. He's crazy. Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to the first Tame Mini, a bite-sized version of the Tame podcast where Owen or Connor discuss a single quote from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and share their subjective interpretation on how we can apply its lessons and logic to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today Owen discusses the following quote: "Doctors keep their scalpels and other instruments handy, for emergencies. Keep your philosophy ready too—ready to understand heaven and earth. In everything you do, even the smallest thing, remember the chain that links them. Nothing earthly succeeds by ignoring heaven, nothing heavenly by ignoring the earth." Book 3, Chapter 13 We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast. ____________________________________________________ Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life. Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Episode 17 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes: "For every action, ask: How does it affect me? Could I change my mind about it? But soon I’ll be dead, and the slate’s empty. So this is the only question: Is it the action of a responsible being, part of society, and subject to the same decrees as God?" Book 8, Chapter 2 "Perfection of character: to live your last day, every day, without frenzy, or sloth, or pretense." Book 7, Chapter 69 "Alexander the Great and his mule driver both died and the same thing happened to both. They were absorbed alike into the life force of the world, or dissolved alike into atoms." Book 6, Chapter 24 We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast. ____________________________________________________   Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life. Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Episode 16 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes: "Look inward. Don't let the true nature or value of anything elude you." Book 6, Chapter 3 "Look at the past—empire succeeding empire—and from that, extrapolate the future: the same thing. No escape from the rhythm of events. Which is why observing life for forty years is as good as a thousand. Would you really see anything new?" Book 7, Chapter 49 "What injures the hive injures the bee." Book 6, Chapter 54 We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast. ____________________________________________________ Things to look at mentioned this episode: [Book] God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert [Book] Getting Things Done by David Allen Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life. Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Episode 15 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes: "Never regard something as doing you good if it makes you betray a trust, or lose your sense of shame, or makes you show hatred, suspicion, ill will, or hypocrisy, or a desire for things best done behind closed doors." Book 3, Chapter 7 "So other people hurt me? That’s their problem. Their character and actions are not mine. What is done to me is ordained by nature, what I do by my own." Book 5, Chapter 25 "Don’t be irritated at people’s smell or bad breath. What’s the point? With that mouth, with those armpits, they’re going to produce that odour. —But they have a brain! Can’t they figure it out? Can’t they recognise the problem? So you have a brain as well. Good for you. Then use your logic to awaken his. Show him. Make him realise it. If he’ll listen, then you’ll have solved the problem. Without anger." Book 5, Chapter 28 We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast. ____________________________________________________ Things to look at mentioned this episode:   [Ted Talk] Never Split the Difference - Chris Voss [Book] Never Split the Difference - Chris Voss Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life. Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Episode 14 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes: "Ambition means tying your well-being to what other people say or do. Self-indulgence means tying it to the things that happen to you. Sanity means tying it to your own actions." Book 6, Chapter 51 "A better wrestler. But not a better citizen, a better person, a better resource in tight places, a better forgiver of faults." Book 7, Chapter 52 "And anyone with a feeling for nature—a deeper sensitivity—will find it all gives pleasure. Even what seems inadvertent. He’ll find the jaws of live animals as beautiful as painted ones or sculptures. He’ll look calmly at the distinct beauty of old age in men, women, and at the loveliness of children. And other things like that will call out to him constantly—things unnoticed by others. Things seen only by those at home with Nature and its works." Book 3, Chapter 2 We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast. ____________________________________________________ Things to look at mentioned this episode: [Book] Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse [Book] Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life. Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Episode 13 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people. Today we're discussing the following three quotes: “Don’t let yourself forget how many doctors have died, after furrowing their brows over how many deathbeds. How many astrologers, after pompous forecasts about others’ ends. How many philosophers, after endless disquisitions on death and immortality. How many warriors, after inflicting thousands of casualties themselves. How many tyrants, after abusing the power of life and death atrociously, as if they were themselves immortal.” Book 4, Chapter 48 "If anyone can refute me—show me I’m making a mistake or looking at things from the wrong perspective—I’ll gladly change. It’s the truth I’m after, and the truth never harmed anyone. What harms us is to persist in self-deceit and ignorance." Book 6, Chapter 21 "Don’t be overheard complaining about life at court. Not even to yourself." Book 8, Chapter 8 We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast. ____________________________________________________ Things to look at mentioned this episode: [Book] Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life. Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Episode 12 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people.Today we're discussing the following three quotes:“It’s silly to try to escape other people’s faults. They are inescapable. Just try to escape your own.”Book 7, Chapter 71"When jarred, unavoidably, by circumstances, revert at once to yourself, and don’t lose the rhythm more than you can help. You’ll have a better grasp of the harmony if you keep on going back to it."Book 6, Chapter 11"Alexander and Caesar and Pompey. Compared with Diogenes, Heraclitus, Socrates? The philosophers knew the what, the why, the how. Their minds were their own. The others? Nothing but anxiety and enslavement."Book 8, Chapter 3We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Find us on Facebook at Tame: The Podcast.____________________________________________________[Book] Discourses and Selected Writings by Epictetus[Book] Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman[Book] How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie[Book] The Power of Now by Eckhart TolleTame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life.Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Episode 11 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people.Today we're discussing the following three quotes:“So remember this principle when something threatens to cause you pain: the thing itself was no misfortune at all; to endure it and prevail is great good fortune.”Book 4, Chapter 49 "[On Ambition:] How their minds work, the things they long for and fear. Events like piles of sand, drift upon drift— each one soon hidden by the next."Book 7, Chapter 34 "What am I doing with my soul? Interrogate yourself, to find out what inhabits your so-called mind and what kind of soul you have now. A child’s soul, an adolescent’s, a woman’s? A tyrant’s soul? The soul of a predator—or its prey?"Book 5, Chapter 11We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it!____________________________________________________Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life. Things we mentioned on today's podcast:   [Book] The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle [Film] Free Solo [Book] Tame Your Gremlin by Rick Carson [Ted Talk] The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday [Ted Talk] Don't Strive to be Famous, Strive to be Talented by Maisie Williams [Book] Discourses and Selected Writings by Epictetus   Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Episode 10 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people.   Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   “To love only what happens, what was destined. No greater harmony.” Book 7, Chapter 57   "Dig deep; the water—goodness—is down there. And as long as you keep digging, it will keep bubbling up." Book 7, Chapter 59   "Keep hold of this alone and remember it: Each of us lives only now, this brief instant. The rest has been lived already, or is impossible to see." Book 3, Chapter 10   We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! ____________________________________________________   Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life.   Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Episode 9 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people.   Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   “For what is just and good is on my side.” Book 7, Chapter 42   "To move from one unselfish action to another with God in mind. Only there, delight and stillness." Book 6, Chapter 7   "Think how much is going on inside you every second—in your soul, in your body. Why should it astonish you that so much more—everything that happens in that all-embracing unity, the world—is happening at the same time?" Book 6, Chapter 25   We also give reference to Book 6, Chapter 12: "If you had a stepmother and a real mother, you would pay your respects to your stepmother, yes... but it’s your real mother you’d go home to. The court... and philosophy: Keep returning to it, to rest in its embrace. It’s all that makes the court—and you— endurable."   We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! ____________________________________________________   Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life.   Things we mentioned on today's podcast:   [Article] Facing your Mid-Career Crisis - Kieran Setiya, Harvard Business Review [Book] 12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson [Book] Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday [YouTube] "Elon Musk - You don't want to be me" [Book] Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman       Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Episode 8 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people.   Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "Not what your enemy sees and hopes that you will, but what’s really there." Book 4, Chapter 11   "If all the rest is common coin, then what is unique to the good man? To welcome with affection what is sent by fate. Not to stain or disturb the spirit within him with a mess of false beliefs. Instead, to preserve it faithfully, by calmly obeying God—saying nothing untrue, doing nothing unjust. And if the others don’t acknowledge it—this life lived with simplicity, humility, cheerfulness—he doesn’t resent them for it, and isn’t deterred from following the road where it leads: to the end of life. An end to be approached in purity, in serenity, in acceptance, in peaceful unity with what must be." Book 3, Chapter 16   "People try to get away from it all—to the country, to the beach, to the mountains. You always wish that you could too. Which is idiotic: you can get away from it anytime you like. By going within. Nowhere you can go is more peaceful—more free of interruptions—than your own soul." Book 4, Chapter 3   We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! ____________________________________________________   Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life.   Things we mentioned on today's podcast:   [Article] Facing your Mid-Career Crisis - Kieran Setiya, Harvard Business Review [Book] Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull [Book] Getting Things Done by David Allen [Talk] Be Humble - and Other Lessons from the Philosophy of Water - Raymond Tang, TEDx [Person] Dashrath Manjhi, the man who carved a tunnel through a mountain [Film] Pursuit of Happyness       Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen    

Welcome to Episode 7 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people.   Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "Choose not to be harmed—and you won’t feel harmed. Don’t feel harmed—and you haven’t been." Book 4, Chapter 7   "But death and life, success and failure, pain and pleasure, wealth and poverty, all these happen to good and bad alike, and they are neither noble nor shameful—and hence neither good nor bad." Book 2, Chapter 11   "It was for the best. So Nature had no choice but to do it." Book 4, Chapter 9   We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! ____________________________________________________   Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life.   Books mentioned on today's podcast: Man's Search for Meaning by Victor E. Frankl Feel the Fear and Do it Anyway by Susan Jeffers   Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Episode 6 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people.   Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "Everyone gets one life. Yours is almost used up, and instead of treating yourself with respect, you have entrusted your own happiness to the souls of others." Book 2, Chapter 6   "A key point to bear in mind: The value of attentiveness varies in proportion to its object. You’re better off not giving the small things more time than they deserve." Book 4, Chapter 32   "If an action or utterance is appropriate, then it’s appropriate for you. Don’t be put off by other people’s comments and criticism. If it’s right to say or do it, then it’s the right thing for you to do or say. The others obey their own lead, follow their own impulses. Don’t be distracted. Keep walking. Follow your own nature, and follow Nature—along the road they share." Book 5, Chapter 3   We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! ____________________________________________________   Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life.   Book mentioned on today's podcast: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey.   Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Episode 5 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people.   Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "You could leave life right now, let that determine what you do and say and think." Book 2, Chapter 11   "Don't be ashamed to need help. Like a soldier storming a wall, you have a mission to accomplish and if you have been wounded and you need a comrade to pull you up, so what?" Book 7, Chapter 7   "Even if you’re going to live three thousand more years, or ten times that, remember: you cannot lose another life than the one you’re living now, or live another one than the one you’re losing. The longest amounts to the same as the shortest. The present is the same for everyone; its loss is the same for everyone; and it should be clear that a brief instant is all that is lost. For you can’t lose either the past or the future; how could you lose what you don’t have? Remember two things: i. that everything has always been the same, and keeps recurring, and it makes no difference whether you see the same things recur in a hundred years or two hundred, or in an infinite period; ii. that the longest-lived and those who will die soonest lose the same thing. The present is all that they can give up, since that is all you have, and what you do not have, you cannot lose." Book 2, Chapter 14   We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! ____________________________________________________   Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life.   Book mentioned on today's podcast: Being Mortal - Medicine and What Happens in the End by Atul Gawande.   Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen   

Welcome to Episode 4 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people.   Today we're discussing three following three quotes:   "Practise really hearing what people say. Do your best to get inside their minds." Book 6, Chapter 53   "Not to assume it’s impossible because you find it hard. But to recognise that if it’s humanly possible, you can do it too." Book 6, Chapter 19   "If the crew talked back to the captain, or patients to their doctor, then whose authority would they accept? How could the passengers be kept safe or the patient healthy?" Book 6, Chapter 55   We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! ____________________________________________________   Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life.   Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen   

Welcome to Episode 3 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people.   Today we're discussing the following two quotes:   "Ignoring what goes on in other people’s souls—no one ever came to grief that way. But if you won’t keep track of what your own soul’s doing, how can you not be unhappy?" Book 2, Chapter 8   "Take care that you don’t treat inhumanity as it treats human beings." Book 7, Chapter 65   We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Also, be sure to give us a like on our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/TameThePodcast. ____________________________________________________   Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life.   Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Episode 2 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people.   Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "People who are excited by posthumous fame forget that the people who remember them will soon die too. And those after them in turn. Until their memory, passed from one to another like a candle flame, gutters and goes out." Book 4, Chapter 19   "Not a dancer but a wrestler: waiting, poised and dug in, for sudden assaults." Book 7, Chapter 61   "Do external things distract you? Then make time for yourself to learn something worthwhile; stop letting yourself be pulled in all directions." Book 2, Chapter 7   We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! Also, be sure to give our Facebook page a like at facebook.com/TameThePodcast.   ___________________________________________________   Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life.   Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen

Welcome to Episode 1 of Tame, the podcast where we discuss quotes from Marcus Aurelius' 'Meditations' and how we can apply the lessons and logic from the book to our own lives to be stronger, kinder and better people.   Today we're discussing the following three quotes:   "Straight, not straightened." Book 7, Chapter 12   "Wherever something can be done as the logos shared by gods and men dictates, there all is in order. Where there is profit because our effort is productive, because it advances in step with our nature, there we have nothing to fear" Book 7, Chapter 53 "You could leave life right now. Let that determine what you do and say and think" Book 2, Chapter 11   We hope you enjoy our podcast and encourage you to join the conversation by leaving comments, getting in touch on social media and sharing this with people you think would benefit from hearing it! ____________________________________________________   Tame is a podcast that uses philosophy to create rational arguments for better mental fortitude and resilience. Owen and Connor subjectively interpret writings from Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations, and adapt them to modern life.   Music: Can I Be Part Of Your Life - Barradeen