Tame: Mind Over Matter

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

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’ Medit

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 bene

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 argu

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 thin

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] Go

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’

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

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 li

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

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 peop

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. Ow

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 y

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

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 fort

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

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

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 rati

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 s

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 l