Nine to Calm - Stocism for Professionals
What Staying Calm at Work Actually CostsBy Arden Fero
Length3h 22m
About this audiobook
You built the machine. You run it well. You are starting to wonder what it is costing you.
Nine to Calm follows one manager through five years of early mornings, missed evenings, and a body that kept score while the inbox kept filling. It follows him to Greece, where the machine ran out of fuel for the first time in years. And back — to an office that had not changed, and a person who had.
Along the way, he finds three writers who had worked out the same problem two thousand years earlier. Marcus Aurelius ran an empire. Epictetus survived slavery. Seneca argued, in the first century, that the greatest theft in a human life is not money but time — and that most people hand it over willingly.
This is not a book about working less. It is a book about working honestly — knowing what you owe the job, what you owe yourself, and where you have been confusing the two.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★★ 5.0 (1)
GenreHealth and Wellness, Philosophy
Length3 hrs 22 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateApr 22, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
21. Before We Begin
32. Introduction
43. On Stoicism
54. The Machine
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65. The Machine — A Moment to Pause
76. The Pulse
87. The Pulse — A Moment to Pause
98. The Pause
109. The Pause — A Moment to Pause
1110. The Shelf
1211. The Shelf — A Moment to Pause
1312. The Practice
1413. The Practice — A Moment to Pause
1514. The People
1615. The People — A Moment to Pause
1716. The Test
1817. The Test — A Moment to Pause
1918. The Calm
2019. The Calm — A Moment to Pause
2120. Afterword
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