Stoic Coffee Break 368 - Finding Your Pace: Stoic Advice for Dealing with Burnout
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Feb 28, 2026 A conversation about regaining momentum when life feels overwhelming. Cycling cadence becomes a metaphor for conserving energy and pacing your days. Stoic practices and temperance are described as tools for recovery. The role of trusted friends and disciplined rest in finding a sustainable rhythm is emphasized.
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A Week Where Everything Hit At Once
- Eric describes a recent week where deadlines, family issues, insomnia, hard conversations, and existential weight arrived at once and he treated every demand like a hill.
- That all-in response led him to hit a wall and feel like moving through quicksand.
Apply Attention In Proper Proportion
- Marcus Aurelius teaches that attention has proper value and proportion; apply effort to matters only as far as is fit.
- This is temperance: match effort to the task so you progress without burning out.
Focus Only On What You Can Control
- Ask yourself What Is Actually Within My Control Right Now and stop spending power on external things like the economy or others' moods.
- Treat uncontrollables as flats to spin through, reserving maximum effort for true hills.
