You want to get started reading the deeply practical stoic philosophy but you aren't sure where to start - I've got for you two introductory texts and three primary texts that are the perfect launching off point for the new stoic.
0:00 Introduction
0:22 Why the interest in stoics?
1:12 The Obstacle is the Way
2:30 A Guide to the Good Life
3:30 The Enchiridion
4:58 Meditations
6:18 Letters from a Stoic
7:45 Admiral James Stockdale
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Links from the Video
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The Books
The Obstacle is the Way: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18668059-the-obstacle-is-the-way
A Guide to the Good Life: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5617966-a-guide-to-the-good-life
The Handbook (Discourses): https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/136792894-discourses-fragments-handbook-oxford-world-s-classics-by-epictetus
Meditations: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1168191.Meditations
Letters from a Stoic: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97411.Letters_from_a_Stoic
The Tao of Seneca (Free!): https://tim.blog/2017/07/06/tao-of-seneca/
Free Translations
Discourses: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/epictetus/discourses/george-long
Meditations: https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/marcus-aurelius/meditations/george-long
Letters from a Stoic: https://tim.blog/2017/07/06/tao-of-seneca/
Substack: https://beyondabstinence.substack.com