All You Need To Know About Stoicism In One Table
It’s Not As Complicated As You Think…
In a very personal TED talk, Tim Ferriss shares the story of his almost-suicide. Struggling with depression more than the average person, he says he’s spent a great deal of his life finding ways to improve emotional resilience.
The best tool he’s found so far also happens to be the source of his best business decisions, he claims: Stoicism.
Right after, he admits: “That sounds…boring.”
How could something that helped one person both prevent the worst kind of death and make millions be boring?
Yeah…how?
Right Time, Wrong Dress
I chose Latin as my second foreign language in high school when I was 13 years old. It turned out to be a great choice, not just because Latin holds the roots of many European languages, but because of the history education you get alongside those.
In a German book with the translated title Latin Is Dead, Long Live Latin!, author Wilfried Stroh notes:
“Let’s not forget Cicero, the self-made man who turned from humble beginnings to Consul of the Roman Republic. Understanding him and other ancient philosophers, like Lucretius, Seneca, Augustus, and of course…
