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Stoic Optimism: Ryan Holiday at TEDxUChicago 2014

2014

Ryan Holiday is the Director of Marketing at American Apparel and the author of “The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Adversity to Advantage” (May 2014), a manual for approaching the obstacles we face in life and flipping them into advantages.

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All That’s Good and Bad about Silicon Valley’s Stoicism Fad

Over 2,000 years after it rose to prominence, Stoicism is unexpectedly popular in Silicon Valley. Could tech's overlords have found a philosophy bigger than themselves?

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Rowland Manthorpe
2017
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The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

The Obstacle is the Way has become a cult classic, beloved by men and women around the world who apply its wisdom to become more successful at whatever they do.

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Ryan Holiday
2025
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Meditations

Marcus Aurelius was born in Rome in 121 AD and would be its Emperor from 161 to 180. Considered by Machiavelli as the last of the good Emperors, Marcus Aurelius would become one of the most important of the Stoic philosophers.

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Marcus Aurelius
2025
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Can Stoicism Make Us Happy?

Can Stoicism teach us how to live? A lot of people seem to think so. They identify as “modern Stoics,” a movement that has gained traction over the past two decades, with thousands of members now congregating online and off to practice a self-help version of the philosophical life.

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Carlos Fraenkel
2019
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Want to Be Happy? Then Live Like a Stoic for a Week

Stoicism holds that the key to a good, happy life is the cultivation of an excellent mental state, which the Stoics identified with virtue and being rational. The ideal life is one that is in harmony with Nature, of which we are all part, and an attitude of calm indifference towards external events.

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John Sellars
2018
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10 Insanely Useful Stoic Exercises

Today I want to describe various Stoic exercises that you can do to develop a Stoic outlook on life. While this is obviously useful for the would-be Stoic, I think that everyone can benefit these exercises.

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Emanuele Faja
2016
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How to Be a Stoic

The first line of Epictetus’ manual of ethical advice, the Enchiridion—“Some things are in our control and others not”—made me feel that a weight was being lifted off my chest.

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Elif Batuman
2016
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Media Titan Arianna Huffington on Lessons from Stoicism and Achieving Work-Life Balance

The Daily Stoic interviews Arianna Huffington. “People look for retreats for themselves, in the country, by the coast, or in the hills. There is nowhere that a person can find a more peaceful and trouble-free retreat than in his own mind. . . .

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The Daily Stoic (Interview)
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The Value of Reason in the Stoic Philosophies of Epictetus and Aurelius

According to the Stoic philosophers Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius, virtue comes through a proper understanding of nature, its processes, as well as one’s place in it.

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Rocco A. Astore
2016
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Life Hacks from Marcus Aurelius: How Stoicism Can Help Us

Stepping back from emotional and physical chaos to reach a state of calm, clear-headed thinking is the bedrock of Stoicism, a philosophy famously practiced by Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius. Learn more in this Knowledge@Wharton interview with author and psychotherapist Donald Robertson.

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Knowledge@Wharton
2019
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