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Stoicism: 3 Books in One - Stoicism: Introduction to the Stoic Way of Life, Stoicism Mastery: Mastering the Stoic Way of Life, Stoicism: Live a Life of ... Guide on Stoicism
Stoicism 3 Book Box Set This book includes 1. Introduction to the Stoic Way of Life 2. Mastery - Mastering the Stoic Way of Life 3. Live a Life of Virtue - Complete Guide on Stoicism Stoicism may be an ancient philosophy, but it is one that has even more relevance to our daily lives now that we are in the modern world. Too often we find that we aren’t able to control our lives, control the events that go on, or even control the people and how they act. But with Stoicism, we learn that we can control some things, such as our emotions and our reactions, and this can help to lead us to happiness. In this complete guidebook we are going to take you from the very basics of using Stoicism in your daily life, to complete Mastery. We will show you how this ancient philosophy is going to work to make you feel happier and more virtuous. Some of the things that we will talk about When you are ready to find the true happiness that belongs to you and bring some of the Stoic ideas into your life, make sure to read through this guidebook and learn just how great it can be to live the Stoic way of life.
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Published January 26, 2018
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March 15, 2018
Since I’m only the second person to review this book as of me writing this I feel the need to get a little bit more in depth with this review than I normally get.
Got this as an Audible book on my phone. I love philosophy(seriously considered majoring in it in college). However I know next to nothing about the topic of this book. The three books in one concept grabbed my attention. I looked forward to getting an in depth look at the philosophy.
If that’s what you’re looking for, don’t read this book. Just don’t. I’m not giving it one star because I do agree with come of the concepts in the books. Some of them.
Reviewing your emotions before you act is a good thing. It can help you avoid conflict that you don’t need. Also accepting things you can’t change will take some stress out of your life. However:
1) I don’t know if this is just the fact that I don’t know anything about stoicism but the ideas here seem vastly oversimplified. 2) Not every “negative emotion” is a bad thing. Anger and fear both have a legitimate place in your emotions. They are not a wrong reaction to a situation. Sometimes those are exactly the right emotions for what is happening. 3) It is assumed in this that negative emotions are a response to you reading a situation wrong and not a result of the situation itself. While this is true in some cases it is blatantly wrong in many situations. 4) The author lumps all “bad” situations together in the same pile. I’m sorry but having your house burn down or being fired from your job isn’t in the same category as being cut off in traffic and shouldn’t be forced together to make a point for your book. 5) The author mentions depression and anxiety. While you can overcome these things those are serious mental health issues. Cognitive behavioral therapy (an offshoot of stoicism) can help but it isn’t going to help everyone. 6) Manages to bring a cheating sports team into the story and how they used stoic principles “to overcome adversity”. They didn’t have anything to overcome that they didn’t bring on themselves. 7) Mentions that atheists and agnostics can follow this but is also constantly bringing up how stoics are trying to be closer to god. 8) He practically begged for a favorable review at the end of each of the sections of this. I guess other people were as annoyed by this as me seeing as how I said there is only one other review besides the one I’m writing. 8) Vastly oversimplifies Roman history. 9) The author somehow managed to make one of my favorite subject boring to me.
I also have issues with the format of this. There is zero reasons why this needs to be three “books” (I put that in quotes because they are so short. The Audible recording for all three books is less than 4 hours.) The books have a really bad habit of repeating things that are in the other books. It gets repetitive and annoying. I think that if these went though a severe editing process that made them into one singular book then it would be more enjoyable (if you can look past everything I mentioned above.)
I said I listened to the audio book so I’m going to make a brief comment about that. The narrator is terrible. Seriously terrible. He sounds like he’s trying to imitate a robot and when he isn’t has random pitch changes in his voice so it was a little hard to concentrate on listening to the book. I doubt this person has ever narrated an audio book before. His way of speaking was just not natural.
I’m seriously thinking of getting another book on this topic so I can compare. I feel like this shouldn’t have been my first trip into the subject. Hopefully I’ll like other books better.
Got this as an Audible book on my phone. I love philosophy(seriously considered majoring in it in college). However I know next to nothing about the topic of this book. The three books in one concept grabbed my attention. I looked forward to getting an in depth look at the philosophy.
If that’s what you’re looking for, don’t read this book. Just don’t. I’m not giving it one star because I do agree with come of the concepts in the books. Some of them.
Reviewing your emotions before you act is a good thing. It can help you avoid conflict that you don’t need. Also accepting things you can’t change will take some stress out of your life. However:
1) I don’t know if this is just the fact that I don’t know anything about stoicism but the ideas here seem vastly oversimplified. 2) Not every “negative emotion” is a bad thing. Anger and fear both have a legitimate place in your emotions. They are not a wrong reaction to a situation. Sometimes those are exactly the right emotions for what is happening. 3) It is assumed in this that negative emotions are a response to you reading a situation wrong and not a result of the situation itself. While this is true in some cases it is blatantly wrong in many situations. 4) The author lumps all “bad” situations together in the same pile. I’m sorry but having your house burn down or being fired from your job isn’t in the same category as being cut off in traffic and shouldn’t be forced together to make a point for your book. 5) The author mentions depression and anxiety. While you can overcome these things those are serious mental health issues. Cognitive behavioral therapy (an offshoot of stoicism) can help but it isn’t going to help everyone. 6) Manages to bring a cheating sports team into the story and how they used stoic principles “to overcome adversity”. They didn’t have anything to overcome that they didn’t bring on themselves. 7) Mentions that atheists and agnostics can follow this but is also constantly bringing up how stoics are trying to be closer to god. 8) He practically begged for a favorable review at the end of each of the sections of this. I guess other people were as annoyed by this as me seeing as how I said there is only one other review besides the one I’m writing. 8) Vastly oversimplifies Roman history. 9) The author somehow managed to make one of my favorite subject boring to me.
I also have issues with the format of this. There is zero reasons why this needs to be three “books” (I put that in quotes because they are so short. The Audible recording for all three books is less than 4 hours.) The books have a really bad habit of repeating things that are in the other books. It gets repetitive and annoying. I think that if these went though a severe editing process that made them into one singular book then it would be more enjoyable (if you can look past everything I mentioned above.)
I said I listened to the audio book so I’m going to make a brief comment about that. The narrator is terrible. Seriously terrible. He sounds like he’s trying to imitate a robot and when he isn’t has random pitch changes in his voice so it was a little hard to concentrate on listening to the book. I doubt this person has ever narrated an audio book before. His way of speaking was just not natural.
I’m seriously thinking of getting another book on this topic so I can compare. I feel like this shouldn’t have been my first trip into the subject. Hopefully I’ll like other books better.
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December 24, 2021
Stoicism: 3 Books in One — Stoicism: Introduction to the Stoic Way of Life; Stoicism Mastery: Mastering the Stoic Way of Life; Stoicism: Live a Life of … Guide on Stoicism (Stoicism Series Book 4) — Ryan James (Narrated by Sam Slydell) Dec. 18-21, 2021
Originally, I planed to only listen to the audio book of the first book, and probably not even write a review. But I found the three book audiobook set on Scribd, and after listening to the first one in bed, I decided that these make great books to listening to before sleepy time.
The first one is an introduction of stoicism; the second book covers the implementation of living the stoic life and the third one was a mishmash of the first two, with what felt like an overlap of the history of stoicism; which included the founders, the people who made it popular and the following today.
When I started reading this, I thought I am a stoic person, but then I decided I wasn’t, and then I concluded I have bits of the stoic life, but mostly not.
Stoicism is a lifestyle of seeing the world as not bad or good; not thinking one is better than another; of meditating: the focus on one moment at a time. I do see the world mostly that way, but then another part of stoicism is deeper that involves a more complicated viewpoint of being all in on this idea and that feels a bit more religious than I would like.
This is good overview set of the way of stoicism and the narrator was a very kind, gentle voice even at the faster read that I like to listen.
The end result is one of personal choice. Do I follow or not? Or am I only seeking a different POV.
Three stars.
Originally, I planed to only listen to the audio book of the first book, and probably not even write a review. But I found the three book audiobook set on Scribd, and after listening to the first one in bed, I decided that these make great books to listening to before sleepy time.
The first one is an introduction of stoicism; the second book covers the implementation of living the stoic life and the third one was a mishmash of the first two, with what felt like an overlap of the history of stoicism; which included the founders, the people who made it popular and the following today.
When I started reading this, I thought I am a stoic person, but then I decided I wasn’t, and then I concluded I have bits of the stoic life, but mostly not.
Stoicism is a lifestyle of seeing the world as not bad or good; not thinking one is better than another; of meditating: the focus on one moment at a time. I do see the world mostly that way, but then another part of stoicism is deeper that involves a more complicated viewpoint of being all in on this idea and that feels a bit more religious than I would like.
This is good overview set of the way of stoicism and the narrator was a very kind, gentle voice even at the faster read that I like to listen.
The end result is one of personal choice. Do I follow or not? Or am I only seeking a different POV.
Three stars.
March 26, 2019
Repetitious
Often repetition can be boring and off putting. In this case it isn’t. The careful, enlightening introduction to Stoicism, especially in the third book, is clear and understandable. Instead of glossing over “nature”, or God or its role in the universe, the author, framed it as the ancients postulated. And, the opens the door a little for those who want to reject it. To me, the author promotes the original interpretation of monotheism in the works of Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius.
Often repetition can be boring and off putting. In this case it isn’t. The careful, enlightening introduction to Stoicism, especially in the third book, is clear and understandable. Instead of glossing over “nature”, or God or its role in the universe, the author, framed it as the ancients postulated. And, the opens the door a little for those who want to reject it. To me, the author promotes the original interpretation of monotheism in the works of Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius.
May 26, 2018
Good introduction to stoicism with some interesting ideas. I’ve liked book “Obstacle is the way” more from role model perspective. This one has some practical suggestions though it’s available in kindle unlimited
July 24, 2018
Great book on Stoicism
This books explains the history as well as the tenets of Stoicism. I like how the book gives modern day examples of how to apply this philosophy to daily life.
This books explains the history as well as the tenets of Stoicism. I like how the book gives modern day examples of how to apply this philosophy to daily life.
January 12, 2019
Excellent book
There's practical examples of how people applied Stoicism to their life. Recommendations for how to apply it to yours and references to the subject matter.
It's very interesting and sticks to the point. Every chapter is fresh with a new topic about Stoicism.
There's practical examples of how people applied Stoicism to their life. Recommendations for how to apply it to yours and references to the subject matter.
It's very interesting and sticks to the point. Every chapter is fresh with a new topic about Stoicism.
February 8, 2018
Quick and nice introduction to Stoicism, although very repetitive and lacks depth. But it was free :) so I won't complain.
October 3, 2018
Good book for beginners, gets the ideas across in a friendly, we're just having a chat kind of way. Sometimes the familiarity got annoying but I liked it on the whole
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