When most people hear the word “Stoic,” they picture a stiff upper lip: bottling up emotions, keeping silent about suffering, and pretending not to care. Psychology—and clients I see showing up in my ...

In a world that has become much safer to express your emotions and much more accepting of differing views and opinions, a huge portion of the population are still practitioners of stoicism or the art ...

Barbara Ehrenreich’s latest book, Bright-Sided, offers a damning indictment of the ideology of positive thinking, which she sees as the fundamental flaw in American life. When she found herself ...

The Dichotomy of Control, and What the Gita Said First Epictetus, a freed Roman slave who became one of the most quoted Stoic ...

Tim Ferriss is an entrepreneur and best-selling author whose podcast has been downloaded more than 400 million times. But even Ferriss has had his share of struggles amid the Covid-19 pandemic. For ...

Ryan Holiday’s books have sold millions of copies, he explains how a two thousand year old philosophy can help people with contemporary life Annabel Jones is an award-winning beauty journalist ...

These sorts of profiles often include what the subject ate at lunch with the writer. That narrative crutch isn’t available to me, because when I reached out to Massimo Pigliucci, he told me that, yes, ...