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How to Be a Stoic

Ancient Wisdom for Modern Living

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How to Be a Stoic

By: Massimo Pigliucci
Narrated by: Peter Coleman
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Who am I?

What am I doing?

How ought I to live my life?

Stoicism teaches us to acknowledge our emotions, reflect on what causes them and redirect them for our own good. Whenever we worry about how to be happy, we are worrying about how to lead a good life. No goal seems more elusive.

Massimo Pigliucci explores this remarkable philosophy and how its wisdom can be applied to our everyday lives in the quest for meaning. He shows how stoicism teaches us the importance of a person's character, integrity and compassion.

Whoever we are, we can take something away from stoicism and, in How to be a Stoic, with its practical tips and exercises, meditations and mindfulness, he also explains how relevant it is to every part of our modern lives.

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©2017 Massimo Pigliucci (P)2020 Penguin Audio Consciousness & Thought Personal Development Personal Success Philosophy Society Spirituality Meditation Stoicism Mindfulness

Critic Reviews

'Excellent.' OLIVER BURKEMAN

'In this thought-provoking book, Massimo Pigliucci shares his journey of discovering the power of Stoic practices in a philosophical dialogue with one of Stoicism's greatest teachers.' RYAN HOLIDAY, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE OBSTACLE IS THE WAY AND THE DAILY STOIC
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Overall a fantastic thorough rabbit hole of stoicism, I do wish Massimo spoke the whole book though, the speaker seemed very robotic

Great! I wish Massimo spoke for the whole book

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With narcissist personality traits flourishing through the use of social media I found this book highlights many antidotes that enable us to live a more meaningful life.

Highlights many useful principles to live by.

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Just not my bag, and the narrator sounded like a robot. Tough to listen to.

It's not that simple...

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There's nothing groundbreaking here. Anyone who has spent a small time with basic Buddhism will find this kinda familiar and obvious.

Kinda obvious....

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It involves fake conversations and I couldn’t get past that! On to the next one.

Not what I expected

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