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You Are Not Lazy. You Are Avoiding Something | S02E06
Procrastination Is Avoidance: Building Courage, Discipline, Justice & Wisdom (Stoic Framework)
The speaker reflects on becoming an adult after his father’s death and connects his lifelong tendency to run away from responsibilities with procrastination as avoidance that repeats in self-reinforcing loops. He explains that fear and ego-driven resistance keep people from doing what they know they should do, especially when responsibilities affect others, and describes a daily Stoic practice of morning commitment and evening reflection through journaling and premeditation. Using the four cardinal virtues—courage, discipline, justice, and wisdom—he outlines how to build better habits: courage is acting despite fear; discipline is self-chosen consistency, not external pressure; justice is judging and correcting one’s own actions toward others; and wisdom is understanding patterns and the dichotomy of control through practice. He urges introspection, ownership of reactions, and steady self-correction to reduce procrastination and become a better member of society.
00:00 Final Version
00:18 What is Procrastination
01:32 Human - The Social Animal
03:07 About our Standard s
05:14 Virtue of Courage
08:08 Death of my Father
10:40 Discipline - the Cardinal Virtue
13:54 Virtue of Justice
21:09 Wisdom Virtue
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25 Aug 2026
Identity Shapes Character (Disciplina) | S02E05
Most discipline advice is hustle in disguise: "do it even if you don't want to."If you constantly need willpower to overcome "I don't want to," you haven't built the identity yet.In this episode — recorded on the trail with an 8kg kettlebell — I break down disciplina as baseline, not grind: why cognitive resistance beats motivational hacks, and how to become the person for whom discipline is identity, not effort.00:00 Why bring a kettlebell on a trail run?00:29 The hustle trap: willpower vs identity01:05 Cognitive resistance & disciplina02:10 Eternal learner & mountain endurance as identity03:30 How to make discipline your baselineThis is Public Mentoring for tech leaders, founders, and developers who want to lead themselves without hype. Stoicism is the operating system, leadership is the work.https://adrianstoic.pagebar.site/?utm_campaign=sociamedia&utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video_description (https://adrianstoic.pagebar.site/?utm_campaign=sociamedia&utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=video_description)#SelfDiscipline #StoicDiscipline #Leadership
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21 Aug 2026
Stop Living on Everyone Else’s Agenda | S02E04
We live with more demands, decisions, expectations and future problems competing for our attention than we usually realize.
And somewhere in that noise, we slowly lose the ability to say no.
In this episode, I talk about the Stoic practice I use to stay in charge of my own mind: morning intention, deliberate boundaries, metacognitive intervention during the day, and reflection in the evening.
Not to eliminate stress. Not to become emotionless.
But to recognize the difference between an emotional reaction and a conscious decision.
Because if you cannot say no, your yes is not entirely yours either.
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