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A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
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Philosophy professor William B. Irvine takes the ancient stoic toolkit and rebuilds it for 21st-century life. The book is best known for its practical chapter on negative visualisation, a stoic technique for breaking the habit of taking things for granted, and it is widely credited with reviving stoicism outside academia.
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📄 326 pages⏱ ~3 hr read📅 2008
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Philosophy professor William B. Irvine takes the ancient stoic toolkit and rebuilds it for 21st-century life. The book is best known for its practical chapter on negative visualisation, a stoic technique for breaking the habit of taking things for granted, and it is widely credited with reviving stoicism outside academia.
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