The 16-Week Course · 4 Credit Hours · Spring 2026
Your personaloperating system.
Eight interconnected disciplines explored over four units — each building progressively on the last to construct a unified, lifelong framework for purposeful living.
Course Introduction
Professor Hanna introduces The Intelligent Life Guide in his own voice.
Read transcript — Course Introduction
23 centuries ago, a Phoenician merchant named Zeno lost everything in a shipwreck off the coast of Piraeus. He washed up in Athens with no cargo, no fortune, and no plan. He wandered into a bookshop, read about Socrates, and asked the bookseller a question that would change western thought, where can I find a man like that? Out of that ruin came a philosophy that would guide an emperor through a plague, a slave to inner freedom, and millions of people today through the ordinary catastrophes of modern life. Welcome to week one of the Intelligent Life Guide. I'm Professor Hannah,
and this hour we trace the origins of Stoicism and meet its three greatest teachers, because before you can practice a philosophy, you need to know whose shoulders you're standing on.
Unit 01 · Weeks 1–4 · 64 hours
Foundations of the Mind
The base layer: governing your own mind and learning to serve before you lead.
Stoicism
The dichotomy of control, reaction versus response, and building an inner citadel circumstances can't breach.
Servant Leadership
The Greenleaf model — leading through service, building trust, and orienting everything around exceeding the expectation.
Unit 02 · Weeks 5–8 · 64 hours
Inner Mastery
Training attention and regulating the nervous system so steadiness becomes your default.
Mindfulness
Present-moment awareness, neuroplasticity, and MBSR as a daily practice — not an occasional escape.
Leadership
Adaptive influence, emotional courage, vision-casting, and the presence that changes rooms.
Polyvagal Theory
Reading your own nervous system — recognizing sympathetic overdrive and finding the way back to safety.
Unit 03 · Weeks 9–12 · 64 hours
Emotional & Entrepreneurial Intelligence
Turning inner steadiness outward — into ventures, relationships, and influence.
Entrepreneurship
Purpose-driven ventures, intelligent risk, Stoic resilience in business, and the first 365 days.
Emotional Intelligence
Self-awareness, empathy, regulation, and social mastery — the four pillars of EI in practice.
Unit 04 · Weeks 13–16 · 64 hours
Behavioral Transformation
Rewiring habits for good — and integrating all four units into one durable practice.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
Evidence-based tools for identifying, challenging, and reshaping the thoughts that drive behavior.
Intentional Living & the Alcohol-Free Advantage
Designing a values-aligned life — including the science-backed 90% alcohol-free lifestyle.
Capstone
Integrate every discipline into a single, coherent, personal operating system you keep for life.
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