Stoicism & The Art of Not Caring
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Stoicism is a potent ancient philosophy that remains extremely important in today’s age. In this video, we explore and interpret some of Stoicism’s teachings in attempt to better understand how we can try to find some happiness in a world of increasingly overt sadness, anxiety, and dissatisfaction.
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@helosakyo599
October 4, 2025 at 5:13 pm
bebek liked it👍🏽
@WordShiftPower
October 4, 2025 at 5:13 pm
Discipline is power, focus is efficiency
@DEEPFRAGRENCE
October 4, 2025 at 5:13 pm
good
@Cobinator7
October 4, 2025 at 5:13 pm
If c'est la vie was a lifestyle
@NguyễnMinhHai-e3r
October 4, 2025 at 5:13 pm
A timely reminder that true freedom comes from mastering our perceptions and reactions. Thank you for this insightful piece.
@alfiospuson7165
October 4, 2025 at 5:13 pm
I don't care
@mellowhny
October 4, 2025 at 5:13 pm
so basically don't' do things to achieve something greater. do them because you like doing them. and success will come with it
@maraxussrafhael
October 4, 2025 at 5:13 pm
Nelson Mandela was so stoic that he killed some political opponents before he decided to be a "good guy" lol
@shellybastion9974
October 4, 2025 at 5:13 pm
Marcus Aurelius: Meditations.
@paranoidgenius9164
October 4, 2025 at 5:13 pm
The tone & narrative is too enthusiastic & the pacing of it is wrong for the subject of discussion. Slow down & speak cautiously instead of starting & ending a sentence without breathing space & processing time.
Good pacing –
Blah blah blah blah, blah
BREATHING SPACE & PROCESSING TIME
Your narrative –
Blah blah blah blah, blah blah, blah blah blah, blah blah, blah blah Blah blah blah blah, blah blah, blah blah blah, blah blah, blah blah Blah blah blah blah, blah blah, blah blah blah, blah blah, blah blah etc.
Brain burn out!
@deerransingh9534
October 4, 2025 at 5:13 pm
so basically dont giv a fuck about something u cant control
@RobbieDuke-hf1dy
October 4, 2025 at 5:13 pm
Love it ❤
@jonathanlundin1204
October 4, 2025 at 5:13 pm
The art of choosing when to care
@anuvata
October 4, 2025 at 5:13 pm
I'd like to see Marcus Aurelius deprived from his little helper, opium. And I think the fact that many stoics used to take it is largely overlooked nowadays.
@mattiasrumni9847
October 4, 2025 at 5:13 pm
Thanks for translation into Arabic!
@organicdog5648
October 4, 2025 at 5:13 pm
I just recently celebrated my 20th birthday. Throughout my entire life, I never understood why I would hide my emotions from the public, and why I never cared about how the outside world thought of me, and instead of reaction to negative external influences with negativity, I have instead always chosen to be forgiving, and positive.
I never understood why I never showed my emotions up front. I just did what worked for me. I also never understood why I would test myself. I would see how long I can go cold turkey on things that, when I actually thought about it, I didn't really NEED to be happy. Social media, drugs, games, alcohol, women, and other common addictions that I thought I needed in order to be happy, but after withdrawling from such things, I realized that I only need myself, and my own happiness. I have my family, my friends, hobbies, and great conversations. Those things ACTUALLY made me happy. But I would have never known that, had I not forced myself to go without those things, when I could've kept indulging in the addiction process.
This video not only expanded my frontal lobe, but also helped me understand myself better. Subscribed for sure
@matthewguzda4075
October 4, 2025 at 5:13 pm
Heres the thing… I consider myself and close friends stoics. Neither going to any extreme but maintaining a relatively balanced life to enjoy things but not seeking out repeating those experiences to make us happy. You take things as they come . But i cant derive joy from myself the way i can when someone tells me a great story or joke. It is the nuance of the others mind and perspective that allows me to enjoy things in a way i couldn't before. Now i may learn to take from them a new way of appreciating something and growing from that but i see interaction like chemistry in that the mix of 2 different chemicals can elicit a new strong reaction or none at all. Its why we need others in a way. Solitary confinement will drive ppl crazy often and i think its because theres a thing about being a social creature as we are, that we need to share experience with one another. I can and often do laugh at rememberences or thoughts in my head, like a mental patient, but that to share that to see thats what thought causes me greAt joy does so in others as well. And this is how we can become close. We share real honest emotions with each other we, know each other in a personal way that binds us. So with all this said i wonder about stoic principles of the outside world weve no control over vs the inside which we do. Isnt it so that theu our thoughts and actions we do in fact change and affect the outside world and at the same time affect ourselves the inside world? That the line between both is sharpe but kind of fuzzy? Anyone? Buhler?
@WiseWanderlust
October 4, 2025 at 5:13 pm
“This is Sparta.”
@martakadziolka7182
October 4, 2025 at 5:13 pm
Ah "stuff"…..I feel like giving a speech in honor like Jason in Dont Look Up.
@iloveumyisis
October 4, 2025 at 5:13 pm
11 de mayo de 2024, 9 20 a. m.
@rocconicoletta6547
October 4, 2025 at 5:13 pm
7:40 that quote has been my favorite quote ever. I've used it for years and I made it my desktop background in 2020. "We must define our happiness not by what we own or achieve, not by how others see us, not by some bigger picture of life but by how we think and see ourselves and live our own lives by what we deem virtuous and relevant."
@Crospic
October 4, 2025 at 5:13 pm
Indifference? It don't matter? What a fraudulent unobjective take on stoicism which is sprinkled on by some very personal remarks outside of what it teaches.
One should accept stoicism. Not Persuit Of Wonder.
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