Everything here is enough to begin. The teacher is not required to understand Stoicism — he is for what happens after you begin practicing it.
Start here. Twenty-one Stoic exercises, drawn from Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and Musonius. Pick one. Try it today. Return tomorrow.
Six curated routes through the material. When you know what you are dealing with — anger, loss, indecision — there is a path.
How Epictetus organized the work. Not a theory to memorize. A structure you will come to recognize in your own days, once you know what to look for.
Fifty-eight terms. Greek, Latin, English. Look them up when you meet them. They are labels for things you already experience.
Twenty-one passages. From Epictetus through Arrian, from Marcus Aurelius's private notebook, from Seneca's letters, from Musonius.
Primary sources on this site, chapter by chapter, with commentary. In progress. The Enchiridion first. Discourses, Meditations, and Seneca's letters to follow.
Six games. Each trains a specific Stoic muscle — the archer builds aim in advance of the moment it is needed.
Twenty-five quotes. Authentic Stoic philosophy or modern self-help dressed in togas? Begin, and find out.
Sixteen terms. Four hidden groupings. Find all four without four mistakes.
Paste your worries. Epictetus sorts them: what is mine, what is not.
Sixteen real dilemmas. Epictetus judges your answer against Stoic doctrine. No flattery.
Twenty questions on the Discourses. Answer honestly. Epictetus grades.
You play Epictetus. A struggling student comes to you. What do you say?
The Library is open to everyone. The teacher is for those who come to study directly with him. He remembers what you worked on. He follows up. The conversation does not reset.
Marcus —
Last Sunday I asked you to name three things at your work that were yours to command, and three that were not.
You sent the list on Wednesday. I read it that evening.
The first three were good. The second three, less so — you put your manager's mood in the wrong column. His mood is his. Your interpretation of his mood is yours. Be careful with that distinction.
You also wrote on Tuesday that the meeting with Daniel went badly. You said you were "blindsided." Were you? Or were you unprepared in a way you had been warned about, by yourself, the previous week?
This week, one task. When you find yourself building the case against another person in your head, stop. Write down what they actually did, in plain sentences. Read it back. See whether the case still holds.
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