ISBN: 9798254878230 - the stoic year: 52 stoic lessons to eliminate overthinking and build unshakable discipline (3 resultados)

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Paperback. Condición: new. Paperback. What if the most practical self-help book ever written was composed by a Roman emperor - in secret, for no one but himself?Marcus Aurelius ran the most powerful empire in the ancient world. He also struggled to get out of bed in the morning, lost his temper more often than he liked, and spent his evenings writing private reminders to himself about how to be a better human being. Those reminders survived. We call them Meditations.His friend Seneca - brilliant, wealthy, occasionally hypocritical, and entirely honest about it - spent his final years writing letters to a friend about how not to waste your life. And Epictetus, who started life as a slave and ended it as the most sought-after philosopher in Rome, built an entire system of inner freedom from inside a life he could not externally control.Together, they answered the one question that has never gone out of fashion: How does a person actually live well?The Stoic Year brings their answers to your calendar.One maxim per week. Fifty-two weeks. A full year of the most serious, most practical, most rigorously tested philosophy ever developed - presented with the depth it deserves and the directness the Stoics always preferred.Each week gives you: An original Stoic maxim in its full historical and philosophical contextA deep, honest commentary that doesn't treat you like a beginnerOne concrete weekly practice - specific, demanding, and genuinely usefulThree reflection questions designed to make you slightly uncomfortableThis is not a book of inspirational quotes.The Stoics would have found inspirational quotes mildly embarrassing. What they believed in was practice: the daily, unglamorous, rewarding discipline of actually applying what you understand to the life you are living right now.Over the course of fifty-two weeks, you will work through the full architecture of Stoic philosophy: Weeks 1-13: Building the inner citadel - control, attention, self-mastery, the art of acceptanceWeeks 14-26: The obstacle is the way - adversity, fate, voluntary discomfort, and why your life is already long enoughWeeks 27-39: The social animal - relationships, justice, community, and the company that makes or breaks youWeeks 40-52: The examined life - death, few wants, necessary suffering, and what fortune genuinely cannot take from you"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."- Marcus AureliusIf you have read about Stoicism and want to actually practice it - or if you are coming to it fresh and refuse to be handed a simplified version - The Stoic Year is the book you open on January 1st and close, fundamentally changed, on December 31st.One year. Fifty-two maxims. One honest practice at a time. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…