Philosophy

Self-Help

The Modern Stoic Handbook

Ancient Practice for People Who Have to Function in the Modern WorldBy Lucian Webb

Listen with Sir Michael Caine™ and 1,000+ voices

Try for $0.00 Get for $10

Length7h 56m

About this audiobook

The Modern Stoic Handbook is practical Stoicism for everyday life: a working guide to Stoic philosophy, the dichotomy of control, and daily Stoic practice for people with spreadsheets, group chats, difficult coworkers, and 4 a.m. dread. A man Lucian Webb used to coach kept a Marcus Aurelius quote pinned to his desktop and read it every morning. He also screamed at his assistant twice a week and could not sit in a room with his sister for forty minutes. "When I asked him what the quote meant in practice," Webb writes, "he gave me a paragraph of vocabulary and no behavior." That gap between what we know and what we do is the gap this book on Stoic philosophy was built to close. Written by a classicist who taught Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, and Seneca in the original Greek and Latin for twenty-three years before becoming an executive coach, this modern Stoicism handbook strips the philosophy of its gym-shirt costume and returns it to working order. Across twenty short chapters, Webb covers the one dichotomy of control, the daily examination, the view from above, the premeditation of adversity, anger as the most expensive emotion, fear, death, money and status, difficult people, aging, comparison in the algorithmic age, and grief. Every chapter ends with a single "Try this" exercise you can run this week. This is Stoic philosophy for everyday life, not a quote book you could buy for nine dollars at an airport. Inside this practical Stoicism handbook: The one dichotomy of control — the single distinction the whole philosophy hangs from, with the pen-and-paper exercise Webb uses with coaching clients to sort what is up to you from what is not The daily Stoic practice that influencers skip — the morning preparation and the evening examination, the unglamorous private work that does not photograph well but actually changes behavior Anger, the most expensive emotion — why Seneca treated anger as a temporary madness, and how to interrupt it before it sends the email you will regret Stoicism for difficult people and difficult relationships — handling the passive-aggressive 8:47 a.m. email, the teenager who will not look up, the spouse whose moods are not yours to operate Death, grief, and aging without bitterness — the topics modern culture skips, met with the Stoic claim that the grief is not less, the grief is honest Comparison in the algorithmic age — applying ancient Stoic philosophy to the hostile new conditions of attention, status, and the feed A reader's guide to the source texts — where to start with Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, and Seneca, which translations to trust, and a year of practices to keep going after the last page This is not a philosophy that promises to make you invulnerable or to fix conditions you did not choose. It is practical Stoicism that promises a better relationship with them: steadier, more honest with yourself, less governed by your moods, less hostage to the moods of others. The practices are simple to describe and difficult to do, and the difficulty is the whole point. For readers of Ryan Holiday's The Daily Stoic and Donald Robertson's How to Think Like a Roman Emperor.

Psychological Healing Identity Journey Grief Redemption

Audiobook details

GenrePhilosophy, Self-Help

Length7 hrs 56 mins

Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices

FormateBook with Audio

LanguageEnglish

1Introduction

22Chapter 20: The Stoic Routine

2Introduction

23Chapter 21: A Life of Practice, Not a Life of Quotes

3Chapter 1: The Stoicism That Hasn’t Actually Been Sold to You

24Conclusion

4Chapter 2: The One Dichotomy — What’s Up to You, What Isn’t

25About the Author

5Chapter 3: The Daily Examination

26Appendix A: A Reader’s Guide to the Source Texts

Show all chapters

6Chapter 4: The View From Above

27Appendix B: The Stoics on Specific Modern Problems

7Chapter 5: The Premeditation of Adversity

28Appendix C: Frequently Asked Questions

8Chapter 6: Negative Visualization Without the Goth Theater

29Appendix D: A Year of Practices

9Chapter 7: Voluntary Discomfort, Properly Understood

30Appendix E: Twelve Lines Worth Sitting With

10Chapter 8: Anger as the Most Expensive Emotion

31Appendix F: The Discipline of Assent — Working with Your Own Mind

11Chapter 9: The Reserve Clause — Acting Without Attachment

32Appendix G: Friendship, the Underdiscussed Stoic Topic

12Chapter 10: Fear and the Stories You Tell Yourself

33Appendix H: Work, and What It Asks of You

13Chapter 11: Death — The Topic Modern Culture Skips

34Appendix I: Sleep, Solitude, and the Practices the Stoics Did Not Name

14Chapter 12: Money, Status, and the Stoic Compromise

35Appendix J: Closing Words

15Chapter 13: Difficult People — And Whether You Are One

36Appendix K: Stoic Practices Across the Day

16Chapter 14: Parenting Through Stoic Eyes

37Appendix L: Reading Marcus Aurelius for the First Time

17Chapter 15: Illness, Pain, and the Body You Are Stuck With

38Appendix M: Reading Epictetus and Seneca — Differences That Matter

18Chapter 16: Aging Without Bitterness

39Appendix N: Twenty Questions Readers Ask About Stoic Practice

19Chapter 17: Comparison in the Algorithmic Age

40Appendix O: A Closing Letter

20Chapter 18: Grief and the Things You Cannot Fix

41Appendix P: Practicing When Life Is Going Well

21Chapter 19: Ambition vs. Equanimity

42Appendix Q: On Teaching Stoicism to Other People

More from Lucian Webb

The Modern Stoic HandbookLucian Webb4h 7m$9 · $0.00

More from Philosophy

Plato: Complete WorksPlato141h 38m$2 · $0.00

WitnessAriel Burger8h 1m$20 · $0.00

Feeling Is The SecretNeville Goddard44m5 (1)$2 · $0.00

The Way to a Beautiful WorldJames Norbury44m$9 · $0.00

The Practicing StoicWard Farnsworth9h 56m$20

The Complete Essays of Montaigne (Annotated)Michel de Montaigne46h 52m$2 · $0.00

Moral Letters to LuciliusLucius Annaeus Seneca25h 24m$2 · $0.00

THE THREE CRITIQUES: The Critique of Pure Reason, The Critique of Practical Reason & The Critique of JudgmentImmanuel Kant46h 10m$1 · $0.00

The LawFrédéric Bastiat2h 7m$10

IlluminationsWalter Benjamin10h 12m$20 · $0.00

Tâo Teh KingLaozi2h 34m$2 · $0.00

Buddhist Boot CampTimber Hawkeye2h 39m$18 · $0.00

The DhammapadaFriedrich Max Müller1h 30m$15

Change Your MindRJ Spina7h 5m$17

SUMMA THEOLOGICAThomas Aquinas285h 28m$1 · $0.00

The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius AntoninusEmperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius6h 24m$1 · $0.00

Crime and PunishmentFyodor Dostoevsky23h 11m$12 · $0.00

MeditationsMarcus Aurelius5h 52m$1 · $0.00

Tao Te ChingLao Tzu1h 25m$2 · $0.00

Tao Te ChingStephen Mitchell, Lao Tzu1h 42m$16 · $0.00

View all

More from Self-Help

365 Days of Hope and Healing for Your Body, Mind, and SoulJoan Hunter8h 48m$10 · $0.00

Rewrite the Mother CodeDr. Gertrude Lyons10h 55m$25

The Best of Les Brown Audio CollectionLes Brown8h 12m$65

Swayam Ki AwaazPrem Rawat8h 34m$26 · $0.00

Be Wild Be FreeAmber Fossey26m$7 · $0.00

Finding Your VoiceMannette Morgan8h 10m$20

Forever BoyKate Swenson9h 27m$29 · $0.00

You Are Worth ItKyle Carpenter, Don Yaeger8h 53m$29 · $0.00

The Happiest Man on EarthEddie Jaku3h 48m$7 · $0.00

Finding MeViola Davis9h 15m5 (2)$29 · $0.00

AretéBrian Johnson19h 57m$35

Spiritual AnatomyDaaji Kamlesh D. Patel9h 47m$29 · $0.00

The Dangerous Truth about Today’s MarijuanaLaura Stack CSP, MBA9h 57m5 (1)$20 · $0.00

Birdie & HarlowTaylor Wolfe7h 50m$26 · $0.00

The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the HorseCharlie Mackesy58m$11 · $0.00

Ghetto BastardK’wan7h 37m$20

Legally YoursManasi Chaudhari8h 52m$29 · $0.00

CrossroadsKaleb Dahlgren7h 56m$26 · $0.00

Life on the BridgeKaelynn Partlow5h 40m$24 · $0.00

From Questioning to KnowingLisa Barnett5h 34m$17