Coaching practices for The Inner Citadel in a New Job
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- In the middle of a tense moment, when everything’s pressing in on me at once, I feel like I have nowhere to stand
- I treat whatever happens to me as a command about how I have to feel
- The instant something lands
- I’m good at my actual job, but lately I keep wading confidently into the next thing over
- I read all the Stoic ideas and nod along, but the moment real life pushes on me I crumble exactly the same as before
Practices that may help
- The Inner Citadel
The "inner citadel" is Pierre Hadot’s name for a core idea in Marcus Aurelius: your own rational mind — your power to judge and assent — is the one place that cannot be taken from you by external events. Marcus calls it the "hegemonikon" (ruling faculty). Building it means training your faculty of assent so it responds to impressions deliberately rather than being yanked by them. The practices are largely mechanistic and clinical in their evidence base, via the well-known Stoicism-to-CBT lineage. - Retreat inward under pressure
When the world presses in, withdraw into your own reasoning faculty — the one place no one else can enter.
The Inner Citadel - See external events from the citadel view
From the inner citadel, events are data for judgment — not commands that must dictate your state.
The Inner Citadel - Train your faculty of assent
Practice pausing between an impression (a thought, feeling, or perception) and your assent to it.
The Inner Citadel - Know and mark the edges of your circle
Label the boundary clearly: 'inside my circle’ vs 'outside my circle’ vs 'I am not sure.'
Circle of Competence - Daily training of the ruling faculty
Treat every day’s difficulties as training material for strengthening the ruling faculty.
The Inner Citadel - The discipline of desire
Confine your desires and aversions to what is genuinely up to you — your judgments and actions, not outcomes.
The Inner Citadel - Forming: provide clarity before connection
In the first stage, a new team needs structure and purpose more than it needs team-building.
Tuckman’s Stages of Team Development - Design an environmental initiation cue
Create a specific sensory cue that reliably signals "work starts now."
Task Initiation: Overcoming the Start Problem - Use genius mapping in onboarding
Surface a new hire’s geniuses early so you design their role around energy, not just skills.
The 6 Types of Working Genius (Patrick Lencioni)
Related concerns
- Inner Citadel Exercise
The "inner citadel" is Pierre Hadot’s name for a core idea in Marcus Aurelius: your own rational mind — your power to judge and assent — is the one place that cannot be taken from you by external events. Marcus calls it the "hegemonikon" (ruling faculty). Building it means training your faculty of assent so it responds to impressions deliberately rather than being yanked by them. The practices are largely mechanistic and clinical in their evidence base, via the well-known Stoicism-to-CBT lineage.
- The Inner Citadel After A Loss
The "inner citadel" is Pierre Hadot’s name for a core idea in Marcus Aurelius: your own rational mind — your power to judge and assent — is the one place that cannot be taken from you by external events. Marcus calls it the "hegemonikon" (ruling faculty). Building it means training your faculty of assent so it responds to impressions deliberately rather than being yanked by them. The practices are largely mechanistic and clinical in their evidence base, via the well-known Stoicism-to-CBT lineage.
- The Inner Citadel As A Parent
The "inner citadel" is Pierre Hadot’s name for a core idea in Marcus Aurelius: your own rational mind — your power to judge and assent — is the one place that cannot be taken from you by external events. Marcus calls it the "hegemonikon" (ruling faculty). Building it means training your faculty of assent so it responds to impressions deliberately rather than being yanked by them. The practices are largely mechanistic and clinical in their evidence base, via the well-known Stoicism-to-CBT lineage.
- The Inner Citadel At Work
The "inner citadel" is Pierre Hadot’s name for a core idea in Marcus Aurelius: your own rational mind — your power to judge and assent — is the one place that cannot be taken from you by external events. Marcus calls it the "hegemonikon" (ruling faculty). Building it means training your faculty of assent so it responds to impressions deliberately rather than being yanked by them. The practices are largely mechanistic and clinical in their evidence base, via the well-known Stoicism-to-CBT lineage.
- The Inner Citadel During A Big Change
The "inner citadel" is Pierre Hadot’s name for a core idea in Marcus Aurelius: your own rational mind — your power to judge and assent — is the one place that cannot be taken from you by external events. Marcus calls it the "hegemonikon" (ruling faculty). Building it means training your faculty of assent so it responds to impressions deliberately rather than being yanked by them. The practices are largely mechanistic and clinical in their evidence base, via the well-known Stoicism-to-CBT lineage.
- The Inner Citadel During Conflict
The "inner citadel" is Pierre Hadot’s name for a core idea in Marcus Aurelius: your own rational mind — your power to judge and assent — is the one place that cannot be taken from you by external events. Marcus calls it the "hegemonikon" (ruling faculty). Building it means training your faculty of assent so it responds to impressions deliberately rather than being yanked by them. The practices are largely mechanistic and clinical in their evidence base, via the well-known Stoicism-to-CBT lineage.
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