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Donald Robertson
Personal blog · learn.donaldrobertson.name/pphilosophyhealth
Donald Robertson's personal blog at learn.donaldrobertson.name covers philosophy and health. Since 2017, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
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Why HN links it
HN readers link Donald Robertson's free online courses and writing on Stoicism, which is valued as teaching of modern Stoic practice. The linked material covers Stoic philosophy and how to apply it.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
I highly recommend the free courses on Stoicism by Donald Robertson: https://learn.donaldrobertson.name
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on “What the Stoics did for us”Submitted An introduction to Stoic philosophy and resilience-building [video] as a story · 167 points
HN discussion> It's nice to say you have to avoid reacting to things outside of your control. But how does one do that ? The first step is to learn to distinguish between the things that are in your control and those that outside of your control. The second step is to consciously remind yourself that things outside your control are by their nature indifferent - neither good nor bad - and to act accordingly. Both of these things…
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on “How to Be a Stoic (2016)”Stoicism. Other than old works from Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, you can also find modern stoic practitioners, Massimo Pigliucci and Donald Robertson (there are others, but these are the best at teaching IMO). Robertsons book has additional chapter you can find somewhere online on exercises for meditation on death. But it's better to read it after https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stoicism-Art-Happiness-Teach-Yourse..…
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on “Stars that race through space at nearly the speed of light”