If you want to face chaos with a clear mind, manage pressure like a professional, and stay emotionally balanced no matter ...
“Only virtue is lofty and exalted, nor is anything great if it is not also calm.” Thus Seneca the Younger in his essay On Anger, written in (probably) the 40’s A.D. Nearly two thousand years later, ...
Here are five Stoic habits that intelligent people practice, often without realizing it, and how they build emotional ...
The practice of Stoicism has been helpful to countless people for the past 2,000 years. One of the simple but powerful ideas of the Stoics is that your ultimate well-being does not depend on forces ...
“What if someone told you that much of the suffering in your life was simply due to the way you think about things?” This rhetorical question opens The Pocket Stoic, written by John Sellars and ...
Some people obsessively monitor presidential election polls. Others ignore any political news like an overdue bill. And a few probably wish they could just press a button and fast-forward past this ...
I have learned many things from my mom, a woman who raised five kids from the '50s through the 90s. Humor. Discipline. How to make a great fruitcake. When to say "Because I said so." Most importantly, ...
The origins of Stoic philosophy can be traced back to Zeno of Citium around 300 BCE. The word “Stoic” comes from the Stoa of Attalos, where the philosophy developed. Although Stoicism was originally a ...
Scholars have long recognised the interest of the Stoics' thought on geometrical limits, both as a specific topic in their physics and within the context of the school's ontological taxonomy.