Learning to cultivate core Stoic principles involves certain spiritual exercises. My class incorporates a variety of these exercises so students can get a taste of Stoicism in practice.

Take the Stoic exercise of negative visualization, for example: imagining worst-case scenarios to prepare emotionally and cultivate gratitude for the present. This technique echoes strategies in ...

wp:paragraph --><!-- wp:paragraph --> The ancient Stoics knew this. They didn’t write stuff just to be read. They created rituals — exercises — to be performed to train your mind to respond ...

During the experiment, participants were asked to immerse themselves in selected readings and exercise basic Stoic principles ...