Today’s book: How to Be a Stoic by Massimo Pigliucci—a modern guide that transforms ancient Stoic philosophy into real-life tools for self-mastery, clear thinking, and purposeful action.
Here’s your 1-minute summary:
- Focus on what you can control. Thoughts, intentions, and actions are yours. Everything else? Don’t waste energy on it.
- Live according to reason and nature. Align your life with rational principles—cultivating virtue over chasing external outcomes.
- Master your reactions. Pause before you respond—observe emotions, then choose your response from clarity, not impulse.
- Practice Stoic exercises. Negative visualization, daily reflection, withholding assent—habitual frameworks to build resilience and focus.
- Cultivate apatheia (equanimity). Free yourself from emotional storms—feel deeply without losing clear-headed calm.
Freedom isn’t about circumstance—it’s about inner choice. Which Stoic practice will you try today?
As always, check out the Notes for more. We’ve got a ton of notes on great books on Stoicism and Stoicism 101. If you haven’t checked that one out yet, hope you have a great day!
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