Jonathan Bastian
Life Examined
A weekly exploration of psychology, philosophy, endurance sports, and finding meaning in the modern world. lifeexamined.substack.com
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The radical act of loving yourself 11.07.2026 10:31
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Now I'm seeing the Millennial midlife crisis 04.07.2026 13:51
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Therapy for overachievers 27.06.2026 10:51
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Joan Didion’s devastating vision of America 25.06.2026 12:43
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The Long-Distance Life, Part II: The Psychology 06.06.2026 12:38
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The Long-Distance Life, Part I: The Ironman 30.05.2026 7:04
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What if you're not anxious or depressed, but just bored? 23.05.2026 10:10
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What ski mountaineering teaches you about life, beauty, risk and happiness 16.05.2026 9:17
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What does the city of death teach us about the nature of grief? 02.05.2026 5:45
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The paradox of love: it begins with you 25.04.2026 6:29
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What I’ll miss about the single life 18.04.2026 6:12
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Is “Wild Geese” by Mary Oliver the best grief poem ever written? 11.04.2026 5:55
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Some dreamers of the Caribbean dream 04.04.2026 8:53
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"Moby-Dick" remains a psychedelic enigma 28.03.2026 11:10
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The Japanese Art of Happiness 21.03.2026 9:51
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Is "Lonesome Dove" an answer to modern male loneliness? 16.03.2026 8:11
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In praise of quiet kindness, when the world is asking us to be loud 13.03.2026 6:52
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The Two Quotes I Think of — and Lean on — Every Day 04.03.2026 9:07
What Viktor Frankl and Seneca say about meaning and mental health. An essay from LifeExamined.substack.com . Please subscribe! It's only takes a minute. Get full access to Life Examined at lifeexamined.substack.com/subscribe
Stay in touch with Life Examined over on Substack! 02.03.2026 1:29
Hey everyone! It's Jonathan Bastian. Just popping in to tell you that I've been staying busy with a new weekly newsletter on Substack. I'm also spending time going through our 5yrs of archives to find hidden gems, unpublished interviews, and content that I think will be valuable to your life. It's so easy to sign up: LifeExamined. Substack.com . Just enter your email! Hope to see you over there -...
Robert Macfarlane: "Is a River Alive?" 10.07.2025 48:34
Robert Macfarlane of Cambridge University shares his extraordinary journey writing and researching his latest book “Is a River Alive?” and explains why a river can be viewed very much as a metaphor for life, always flowing, twisting, changing and adapting while at the same time providing sustenance for man and nature alike. Get full access to Life Examined at lifeexamined.substack.com/subscribe
When to medicate the mind with Laura Delano 10.06.2025 1:04:00
Laura Delano is the author of “UNSHRUNK: A Story of Psychiatric Treatment Resistance." As you’ll hear, Laura Delano speaks from first hand experience - diagnosed as a teenager with bipolar disorder, Delano shares her own struggles with mental illness, the psychiatric and pharmaceutical industry and the toll that treatment and medication took on her. Get full access to Life Examined at lifeexamin...
Yale happiness guru Laurie Santos on the power of time off and modern parenting traps 27.05.2025 50:54
Laurie Santos talks about the power of a sabbatical, burn out, and her new online course titled: “The Science of Well-Being for Parents” —a direct result of discovering just how much pressure, stress and anxiety parents are under these days. Get full access to Life Examined at lifeexamined.substack.com/subscribe
Ocean Vuong: "The Emperor of Gladness" 15.05.2025 59:15
Ocean Vuong is a Vietnamese American poet, essayist, novelist and professor of modern poetry and poetics at New York University. Some of you may already be familiar with his best-selling debut novel, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, which received a MacArthur “Genius” grant and was nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction in 2019. Vuong’s award-winning poetry collections include, Time Is...
“He showed us what simplicity could offer:” Pico Iyer and Paul Elie remember Pope Francis 26.04.2025 51:57
Pico Iyer, essayist and author of numerous books including “The Half Known Life:In Search of Paradise ” and most recently “Aflame: Learning from Silence,” reflects on the death of Pope Francis and highlights the extraordinary impact Pope Francis’s life had, despite Iyer’s non-Christian faith. Pope Francis’s humility, simplicity, and actions, Iyer says, which exemplified his teachings had and con...
Midweek Reset: Life: less itinerary - more flow 23.04.2025 3:30
This week, economist and author of “ Wild Problems: A Guide to the Decisions That Define Us ,” Russ Roberts offers a different perspective and approach to tackling some of life’s biggest challenges and decisions. Revisit the complete episode of Life Examined with Russ Roberts which originally aired August 27th, 2022 Get full access to Life Examined at lifeexamined.substack.com/subscribe
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