Tag: Stoicism

Uncategorized May 17, 2019June 10, 2019

Now thinking like a Roman emperor – @DonJRobertson

Highly recommended!

This week, I finished Donald Robertson’s new book How To Think Like a Roman Emperor. And, what a remarkable book it is.

It succeeds in being a practical introduction to Stoicism whilst combining biography, history, psychotherapy and philosophy. Each chapter uses a period in Marcus’s life to illustrate an issue, for example, conquering desire or relinquishing fear. It describes Marcus’s situation, then demonstrates Stoic exercises that deal with the topic in question.

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Echoes through time May 13, 2019May 13, 2019

Echoes through time: you take yourself along

What good will new countries do you? What use is touring cities and sites? All your dashing about is useless in the end. Do you ask why your flight is of no avail? You take yourself along.
You must shed the load that is on your mind: until you do that, no place will be pleasing to you.

Seneca (4 BC – AD 65), Moral Letters to Lucilius (28.2)

Freelancing May 11, 2019May 11, 2019

Modern Stoicism, stress and freelancing – @StoicWeek

The Modern Stoicism site has just posted an expanded version of Freelancing, Stoicism and Stress. I am both grateful and humbled.

Hopefully, fellow independent professionals will find it informative and perhaps useful, too.

Many thanks to Modern Stoicism’s editor Greg Sadler for his support.

The Modern Stoicism article is here.

The shorter original, elsewhere on this site, is here.

Photo by Nik Shuliahin on Unsplash

Echoes through time May 6, 2019April 18, 2019

Echoes through time: goodness tomorrow

Give it the whole of your attention, whether it be a material object, an action, a principle, or the meaning of what is being said.
This disappointment serves you right. You would rather hope for goodness tomorrow than practise it today.

Marcus Aurelius (AD 120 – 180), Meditations (8.22)

Echoes through time April 29, 2019April 16, 2019

Echoes through time: regard yourself with distrust

If you want to make progress, put up with being thought foolish and silly with regard to external things, and don’t even wish to give the impression of knowing anything about them; and if some people come to think that you’re somebody of note, regard yourself with distrust.

Epictetus (c.50 – 135), Handbook (13)

Echoes through time April 22, 2019April 15, 2019

Echoes through time: to look things in the face

The first rule is, to keep an untroubled spirit; for all things must bow to Nature’s law, and soon enough you must vanish into nothingness, like Hadrian and Augustus.
The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are, remembering that it is your duty to be a good man. Do without flinching what man’s nature demands; say what seems to you most just – though with courtesy, modesty and sincerity.

Marcus Aurelius (AD 120 – 180), Meditations (8.5)

Image: Andrew Munro: young Marcus Aurelius, bust from Temple of Flora, Stourhead Gardens, Wiltshire

Uncategorized April 17, 2019

Thinking like a Roman emperor – @DonJRobertson

Finally arrived today.

I’ve just read the introduction and already I’m hooked.

The must-read shelf has been bullied into submission.

Uncategorized April 17, 2019

Rock ‘n’ roll ‘n’ stoicism – @HurricaneNita

At first pass, the hedonistic, glam world of rock music seems an unlikely place for a practising Stoic.

But, then you reflect on the impossible highs and lows of life on the road; the shapeless, twilight, drudgery of tour-bus life and it begins to make sense.

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Echoes through time April 15, 2019March 29, 2019

Echoes through time: to be free

If anyone wants to be free, then, let him neither want anything nor seek to avoid anything that is under the control of others; or else he is bound to be a slave.

Epictetus (c.50 – 135), Handbook (14.2)

Uncategorized April 10, 2019April 9, 2019

Stoics, stoicism, Marcus and more…

…with The Daily Stoic.

DailyStoic.com started life in support of the book by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman, The Daily Stoic – 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living.

The site is now a rich resource of Stoic Wisdom and, because I read new pearls of that wisdom every day via the daily newsletter, I include it on the list.

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Tag: Stoicism

Now thinking like a Roman emperor – @DonJRobertson

Echoes through time: you take yourself along

Modern Stoicism, stress and freelancing – @StoicWeek

Echoes through time: goodness tomorrow

Echoes through time: regard yourself with distrust

Echoes through time: to look things in the face

Thinking like a Roman emperor – @DonJRobertson

Rock ‘n’ roll ‘n’ stoicism – @HurricaneNita

Echoes through time: to be free

Stoics, stoicism, Marcus and more…

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