The Soft Stoic

“The modern world is a LOT. I read somewhere that the average person is fed the same amount of information in a single day that an educated person 500 years ago would have seen. So it's no wonder that a lot of us are anxious and overthink everything. In a quest to find a healthier way of navigating the world, I came upon Stoicism. It really drives home how many things we get worked up about that are outside of our control, which is a re-framing that fundamentally changes how we react. It also dives deeper into how to live effectively and have a good life. It sounds like a lot of pseudo-philosophic culty mumbo jumbo (which is what someone trying to get you to join a cult would say), but the best entry point I can give is The Soft Stoic Letter. It's a newsletter from someone who is an expert in Stoicism and psychology and she ties it all back into our modern life so well. It's one of the few newsletters I never skip when it's in my inbox. If you want to learn about Stoicism (and it's very different from the lowercase "stoic") or you just want to think a little bit deeper about how you react and exist in the world. I recommend it. Start with issue 8, "How to not make every mildly inconvenient event a personal attack from the universe," and issue 14, "How to Stop Wasting Energy on Shit You Can't Change."”

“I recently got this rec from Rec League (meta!), so can’t speak to it as well as others here have, but after signing up, I received this perfect newsletter yesterday. Reading it helped me start healing something that I wasn’t even fully aware had been happening below the surface, and I just woke up today feeling better: more content with where I am and ready to handle whatever comes next.”