Why restricting yourself to “acceptable” emotions leads to burnout—and how Stoic awareness widens your emotional range.
Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. The Practicing Stoic: A Philosophical User’s Manual, by Ward Farnsworth (David R. Godine): It is curious that two ...
Members of a brainy movement across the pond are reviving ancient stoic thought and coupling it with modern psychology to strengthen mental resilience. Their ideas hold fascinating promise for ...
On Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, we see the world through the eyes of Rebecca Bunch (Rachel Bloom), a woman raised by musical theater, a self-centered single mom, and an abandonment complex. But the people who ...
(The Conversation) — Stoicism isn’t just a set of ideas; it’s meant to be put into practice. The ancient philosophy is finding new fans through online communities. Perhaps it’s not so surprising. The ...
“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 ...
SHAMED tennis ace Boris Becker is giving fellow cons lessons in Stoicism. The 54-year-old has taken up the role as he serves a two-and-a-half year term for hiding millions of pounds of assets from ...
Matthew Sharpe works for Deakin University. He is part of an AR-funded grant on modern reinventions of the ancient idea of philosophy as a way of life, and is presently working on a book on a ...