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Started reading this with the new year and stopped today. It was frustratingly repetitive, with only 2 or 3 ideas said over and over again in different ways by different people.
A life changing book that I read a page a day. I'm now on my second loop.
I am a fan of some of Marcus Aurelius' writing so I bought this book looking forward to discovering other ancient Stoic writers. Instead, I found mostly the interpretations of the editor with just small snippets from the Stoic greats. Sometimes it's hard to find the Stoic quotes amidst the simplistic and shallow commentary of the editor.
Stoicism is an ancient philosophy. It asserts that virtue (meaning self-control, courage, justice, and wisdom) is happiness. To achieve virtue, and thus live happily, one must master the three Stoic disciplines: perceptions (how you see and understand the world), actions (how you act based on what you see), and will (how you feel when events are outside your control).The Daily Stoic is an exercise guide, not a history of Stoicism. Its goal is to help you understand the three disciplines - percep...
"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skilful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.”Epictetus(What about those who drown ...and sink?). Well, well,...keep serene. And keep a diary.https://www.google.it/amp/s/amp.thegu...(Be careful using BoJo's Stoic technique of negative visualisation)We are all Stoics now... maybe:https://asiatimes.com/2020/03/we-are-...(And Taoists too??)"We are waves of the same sea, leaves of the same tree, flowers of the same garde...
I’ve read this book already but i still read it everyday. It serves as a book vitamin to me. ❦ It helps me have a positive attitude when i’m feeling down.❦ It gives me a whole a new perspective.❦ It helps open my mind and help me understand things.❦ It helps me find something positive in a negative situation.❦ It just lifts me.It may be short but i believe it still served its purpose.These are just some of the things that this book did to me. I do hope it has the same effect on you. And aside fr...
Life changing. Reading it over. Every day. Every year.
Read it in just under 6 weeks, rather than a year. Some days are repetitive, but then again so is life, since lessons tend to be repeated until learnt. But as the conclusion says, theory is easy, practice is hard (and never-ending).___Stoicism in a nutshell: Virtue (four cardinal virtues of self-control, courage, justice and wisdom) is happiness, and it is our perception of things - rather than the things themsleves - that cause most of our trouble.The three most essential parts of Stoic philoso...
December Non-fiction book of the month! “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” I came upon this book when a friend posted one of the pages on IG and I thought that I would enjoy the book and the format. I have read a book about stoicism by Holiday and wasn’t the biggest fan -Because of the preachy writing style and not the concept itself- I was looking for a Non-fiction book for D...
Gave up pretty quickly on this as the commentaries attached to each quotation are clearly geared to "high-octane, action-oriented" douchebros. Skip this and just read to the actual sources. To be fair, I should have looked up this Ryan Holiday asshole beforehand, and I wouldn't have bothered.
I bought this book in hopes to get a modern take of stoic philosophy. The book is intended to start on January 1st which is slightly distracting but that's neither here nor there. Each passage has a snippet of a classic stoic philosopher and a few paragraphs on how that particular snippet can be implemented in modern life. I personally don't particularly see eye to eye with how the authors choose to implement the philosophy. Without getting to political, there is a typical "American" / neolibera...
I have read this book more or less with regard to the date as author originally intended – one piece of stoic wisdom per day. As one of the great stoic, Seneca, recommends – "Of all people only those are at leisure who make time for philosophy, only they truly live.", I tried to fill my days this year with some leisureliness by following the wisdom of Seneca, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Musonius Rufus, and some other fellows from swollen times. It is a very good idea by Ryan Holiday – a daily sm...
