Four Lessons from 300 Podcast Episodes

What Can Stoicism & Philosophy Really Teach us?

This is episode 301, which makes it the first episode after I hit the 300-episode mark. 300 episodes is about 150 hours of podcast content, which is about 6 days of steady listening (for those interested in binge-listening all of the episodes).

I saw that Chris Williamson, the host of Modern Wisdom, does this thing every hundred episodes or so where he recaps the biggest takeaways in the last one hundred episodes. I certainly cannot go back and do that after reaching 100 or 200 episodes, but thought that this may be a useful thing to do, so here we go.

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The Wisdom of Not Knowing

Perhaps the biggest lesson I’ve learned in 300 episodes is just how little I know. You may think that one becomes wiser after researching so many different areas and speaking with so many subject-matter experts. That may be true, but what is also true is that you start to understand just how little you actually.

I used to be so sure of so many things in life. And now, I really don’t know. As an example, though I never hated religious people, I often wouldn’t want to associate with them. I was very uncomfortable speaking to Christians. Now, it genuinely doesn’t bother me in the least.

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I used to look at Christians as people who couldn’t come to grips with death or who couldn’t think for themselves. I was so, utterly wrong about that.

I’m certainly not saying that I’ve converted to Christianity. What I am saying is that I am completely accepting of the fact that I simply do not know anything. Is there an after-life? I don’t know. Is there a God? I don’t know. Does praying do anything? I really just don’t know.