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The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday and Steve Hanselman Thanks to Ryan Holiday for recommending Hadot’s work.) (After these two, if you like Hadot, I’d also recommend you check out his book The Present Alone is Our Happiness. In this book Pierre Hadot does a fantastic introduction to the concept of ‘spiritual exercises’ and offers examples from multiple philosophers. While not focusing uniquely on Stoicism, this book is a key text in understanding how philosophy is more than an academic discipline isolated from real life, but something to guide us and orient us-and most of all-something to be practiced. If you end up loving Pierre Hadot’s book on Marcus, Philosophy as a Way of Life is a natural next step. Philosophy as a Way of Life: Spiritual Exercises from Socrates to Foucault by Pierre Hadot Despite being academic and a translation from Hadot’s French, this book is readable and offers unparalleled insights into Marcus, his influences and into Stoicism as a philosophy. Pierre Hadot, one of the most prominent scholars of ancient philosophy, has written a remarkable guide to both Marcus Aurelius and his Meditations. The Inner Citadel: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius by Pierre Hadot And one last thing, I wrote this primarily for myself as a list for books to read this year. That research led to the below list-what I would call is (hopefully) the ultimate collection of books on-or inspired by-Stoicism with a short description to give you a taste. I want to thank Massimo as well as everyone from the reddit community who contributed to the discussion. They contain timeless truths and wisdom for any era.īut what if you wanted to go deeper? What if you wanted to read commentary and biographies on the practitioners? How did the philosophy develop over the years? What do the critics have to say? How did Stoicism inspire Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy? Or maybe you want to find a fiction book that is inspired by Stoicism? Or just a simple introductory text for beginners? It’s that curiosity that led me to ask the Stoicism community on reddit earlier this year for suggestions on the best books on Stoicism as well as looking around online for recommendations (including helpful lists on Goodreads and from Massimo Pigliucci ).

In them, we find the wisdom to help us overcome adversity, find serenity and live well. You can pick up Seneca, Marcus Aurelius or Epictetus and find the writing fresh as ever. The best part about Stoicism is that you can go to the primary texts, read them and feel like they were written yesterday, not 2000 years ago. If you’d like to contribute to The Daily Stoic, please get in touch. Acknowledge that.This is a guest post by Hristo Vassilev.

Regardless of what you succeed in, there are always people who helped with making that success besides you.

Don’t feel like you need every bit of applause.

Thoughts that your team cannot perform as well as you not only stress you out further, but it stunts the growth of a team that could be highly successful under the proper circumstances.

Trust that your team can take care of functions just as well as you can.

Don’t feel like you have to be in control of every task.

Celebrating your successes too early can prevent you from achieving further success.

Being a prideful person makes you block out opportunities to learn and even toss caution to the wind.

If you believe you already know what someone has to tell you, you will only prevent yourself from growing.

Keep your ego at bay by always believing that there is more for you to learn.

If Wanting to be praised for a job well done is thanks to your ego.

Your ego wants you to receive the credit without doing the work.

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