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What is Stoicism and How Can it Turn your Life to Solid Gold?

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garuff:
Re-reading this post and decided to have a look at picking up a copy of 'The ancient art of stoic joy'...

Looks like Amazon have capitalised on the MMM readership showing an interest in this book!* Camelcamelcamel shows a notable spike in price following somewhere around October 2011!

http://uk.camelcamelcamel.com/Guide-Good-Life-Ancient-Stoic/product/0195374614?context=browse

* Yes, I am aware that correlation <> causation - but it looked mildly significant to me!!

Anyway, I like this article - have been discussing this with a friend at work and working out ways that such a philosophy can be applied to our lives currently!

Bayou Dweller:
I'm surprised that more people haven't been talking about this book (or maybe I've just missed it). I know this post is old, but I'm gonna post here anyway...

I'm about 3/4th of the way through A Guide to the Good Life, which is the book mentioned in this article.

Reading through it you can clearly see that it's almost 100% Mustachian, or rather, Mustachianism (or Pete, really) is almost 100% Stoic. It's kind of cool reading the "source" documents of the Mustachian philosophy in a way. I learned a lot from reading the book, despite being a long-time Mustachian. The author lays out actionable tips for your life, too, which is really sweet (and parallels the advice on this blog).

I can see why Pete calls it "Badassity" now. Stoicism is definitely badass.

stoaX:
Go to the mustachian book club pages and read all about it.

Mgmny:
I posted this in the book club area as well, but it appears as though my library is also seeing a huge influx of requests for this book. I'm number 50 in line for 3 copies!!!

Mgmny:
Sorry for the double post, but I just looked into it, and it appears as though one of the 3 copies is "lost" so there are really only TWO copies in circulation at my library for 50 people. I won't get to the top of this list for years!!

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