What books should you read first on Stoicism?
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Author of "How to Think Like a Roman Emperor", and "How to Think Like Socrates". President of the Plato's Academy Centre in Athens.
What books should you read first on Stoicism?
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Did you know that President Trump is said to believe that a person, like a battery, is born with a finite amount of energy, which exercise only depletes?
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Q: Despite being a Roman emperor, was Marcus Aurelius, in some ways, less of an autocrat than Donald Trump?
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Over-intellectualizing your insights in cognitive therapy is a form of avoidance.
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What makes farmers angry?
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Return to the Neurotic Paradox.
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I started work on this article years ago, when I first read Petersonโs 12 Rules but didnโt finish it because I thought, well, that it might rock the boat too much just to point out some of the more bizarre things that he actually says.
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Could this ancient poem about Epictetus have been written by one of his Stoic students?
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Back to School with Stoicism by Meredith Alexander Kunz
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How much do you really know about gladiators?
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๐ฑ Why are you guys constantly using fear to motivate yourselves? And how's that working out for you?
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Are your solutions doing more harm than good? Welcome to the Neurotic Paradox!
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Have you forgotten to be magnanimous today? #Stoicism
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Augustus or Marcus Aurelius, for instance, would have seen the frequent emotional outbursts of Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson as unmanly and shameful weakness of character. Emotional tantrums, including venting anger, are basically the complete opposite of what they saw as their masculine ideal.
16.08.2025 00:39 โ ๐ 6 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0Modern influencers in the Manosphere claim to admire ancient Romans for their traditional manly virtues but they also defend anger and aggression as manly traits. Ironically, the ancient Romans typically saw expressions of anger not as a masculine virtue but as a feminine and childish vice.
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Trump = Cleon. Cleon stood out because he was perceived as a businessman who could claim to be campaigning against the corruption of the ruling aristocratic elite. He was a demagogue who replaced political debate in the Assembly with personal attacks and insults.
12.08.2025 14:40 โ ๐ 0 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0๐ Stop and think! Are you about to do something unwise?
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