{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/6164470ddef1ec0012762fbd/6538a886ebdabd001247075f?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Why Your Insignificance Isn't a Bad Thing","description":"<p>Today’s episode takes inspiration from various Stoic sources, as well as Oliver Burkeman’s excellent book <em>Four Thousand Weeks</em>, to show how it’s possible to zoom out from our own troubles and get a better perspective on them.</p><p><br></p><p>Doing this can, as Burkeman puts it, help us to drop back down from \"godlike fantasies of cosmic significance into the experience of life as it concretely, finitely – and often enough, marvelously – really is.\"</p><p><br></p><p><strong>📻 FOR MORE STOIC AUDIO + EMAIL CONTENT</strong></p><p><br></p><p>Check out <em>What Is Stoicism?</em> on Substack:</p><p><a href=\"https://whatisstoicism.substack.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://whatisstoicism.substack.com</a></p>","author_name":"Allan John (What Is Stoicism?)"}