A promising blend of classical Stoicism and trailblazing psychology. While it’s a commonplace that we can change our minds, this book shows us how we can also reframe our emotions in ways that liberate us from the grip of thoughts and feelings that can keep a good person down. The Stoic Challenge: A Philosophers Guide to Becoming Tougher, Calmer, and More Resilient by William B Irvine Republic by Plato Dialogues and Natural History. Derren Brown, mentalist, illusionist, and author of Happy The stoic challenge : a philosophers guide to becoming tougher, calmer, and more resilient / William B. His congenial writing offers strategies for the anxiety-free, supple kind of sturdiness with which we should all be greeting ourselves and the world. The Stoic Challenge, then, is the ultimate guide to improving your quality. Irvine is a warm and friendly Stoic, and one of the great guides through the subject. Irvine teaches us to turn any challenge on its head. Donald Robertson, author of How to Think Like a Roman Emperor I can see this book benefitting many people in their daily lives, and I’m sure they’ll go on to recommend it to their friends. The Stoic Challenge is a beautifully engaging account of how to approach life with a particular gem of Stoic wisdom as your guide.

A practical, refreshingly optimistic guide that uses centuries-old wisdom to help us better cope with the stresses of modern living. William Braxton Irvine - 2019 - New York: W.W. Marc Andreessen, cofounder, Netscape and Andreessen Horowitz The stoic challenge: a philosophers guide to becoming tougher, calmer, and more resilient. This book shows how the philosophy of Stoicism can be directly applied to the process of building companies and making new things in the world.

The best founders retain equanimity and energy regardless. Massimo Pigliucci, author of How to Be a StoicĮvery startup founder knows that startups, no matter how successful they appear from the outside, are actually beset with setbacks. Bill Irvine does it again: he uses ancient Stoicism, updated with modern findings from psychological research, to challenge us to become better human beings.

The stoic challenge by william b irvine