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    Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience
    Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience
    Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience
    Audiobook7 hours

    Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience

    Written by Nancy Sherman

    Narrated by Pam Ward

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    About this audiobook

    Drawing on the wisdom of Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and others, Nancy Sherman's Stoic Wisdom presents a compelling, modern Stoicism that teaches grit, resilience, and the importance of close relationships in addressing life's biggest and smallest challenges.

    A renowned expert in ancient and modern ethics, Sherman relates how Stoic methods of examining beliefs and perceptions can help us correct distortions in what we believe, see, and feel. Her study reveals a profound insight about the Stoics: They never believed, as Stoic popularizers often hold, that rugged self-reliance or indifference to the world around us is at the heart of living well. We are at home in the world, they insisted, when we are connected to each other in cooperative efforts. We build resilience and goodness through our deepest relationships.

    Bringing ancient ideas to bear on twenty-first-century concerns from workers facing stress and burnout to first responders in a pandemic, from soldiers on the battlefield to citizens fighting for racial justice Sherman shows how Stoicism can help us fulfil the promise of our shared humanity. In nine lessons that combine ancient pithy quotes and daily exercises with contemporary ethics and psychology, Stoic Wisdom is a field manual for the art of living well.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAscent Audio
    Release dateJul 6, 2021
    ISBN9781663715241
    Stoic Wisdom: Ancient Lessons for Modern Resilience

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    • 3/5
      I got about halfway through and thought it wasn't bad. But I couldn't stand the authors continuous insertion of political figures as examples. Trump, fauci Cavanaugh etc'. Figures she has never met. It is like a psychologist rather than describing his case studies instead psychologising popular figures from the culture. Stupid.
    • 1/5
      This reader sounds so condescending in the intro it’s made it too hard to continue. The writing is trite. A poor comparison to reading source material
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      Waste of Time If you want to hear stoics ....... Author simply giving own opinion couldt continue after 10 minutes