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About this Book:
- Nearly 2,300 years after a ruined merchant named Zeno first established a school on the Stoa Poikile of Athens, Stoicism has found a new audience among those who seek greatness, from athletes to politicians and everyone in between. It's no wonder; the philosophy and its embrace of self-mastery, virtue, and indifference to that which we cannot control is as urgent today as it was in the chaos of the Roman Empire.
- In Lives of the Stoics, Holiday and Hanselman present the fascinating lives of the men and women who strove to live by the timeless Stoic virtues of Courage. Justice. Temperance. Wisdom. Organized in digestible, mini-biographies of all the well-known--and not so well-known--Stoics, this book vividly brings home what Stoicism was like for the people who loved it and lived it, dusting off powerful lessons to be learned from their struggles and successes.
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just read the source material. it's much more approachable.
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just read the source material. it's much more approachable.
just read the source material. it's much more approachable.
just read the source material. it's much more approachable.
Right? Anyone can just "write" books these days
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just read the source material. it's much more approachable.
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just read the source material. it's much more approachable.
Ryan Holiday does an excellent job at providing simple, modern interpretations of stoicism for the average person. Yes, there are much deeper, more sophisticated works out there, but Holiday's books are very clearly intended as a gateway to Stoic values for the average person.
And this is coming from somebody who actively dislikes Holiday's most well-known book, The Daily Stoic. While it's not for me, I can appreciate the purpose it serves to certain people.
One other thing I believe the 'true stoics' are getting wrong is looking at much of his work as if it's intention is to teach stoicism. It's not. Many of his books are looking at a specific topic (ego, adversity, discipline, etc...) through the lens of Stoic values, as opposed to considering themselves primarily a source of Stoic teachings.
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