Napoleon Hill never dreamed that an interview with Andrew Carnegie, an industrialist and steel magnate, would change his life. Nor could he predict that his book Think and Grow Rich (1937) […]
A Positive Mental Attitude (PMA) is a state of mind, which the individual must create and maintained by methods of (his) own choice through the operation of (his) willpower based […]
Early Stoics Zeno of Citium Origin: Kition, Cyprus 334 BC – D. 262 BC Areas of interest: Ethics, Physics, Logic Influenced: Cleanthes, Chrysippus, Posidonius, PanaetiusLucius Annaeus Seneca, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius […]
Who Is Marcus Aurelius? Getting To Know The Roman Emperor Introduction Agasicles, king of the Spartans, once quipped that he wanted to be ‘the student of men whose son I should like […]
Who Is Epictetus? From Slave To World’s Most Sought After Philosopher Profiles, Stoic Philosophers Profiles, and More Introduction Part of what makes Stoicism fascinating to study is that three of its […]
Who Is Seneca? Inside The Mind of The World’s Most Interesting Stoic Profiles, Stoic Philosophers Profiles, and More Introduction Author Nassim Taleb likes to tell the story of Thales of Miletus, an ancient […]
Find below a selection of our favorite Stoic quotes. If you are new to the philosophy, we invite you to read our introduction to Stoicism article. Marcus Aurelius quotes “Waste no […]
Rule 1: Own the morning “At dawn, when you have trouble getting out of bed, tell yourself: ‘I have to go to work – as a human being…I’m going to […]
1. The Dichotomy Of Control “The chief task in life is simply this: to identify and separate matters so that I can say clearly to myself which are externals not under […]
Agasicles, king of the Spartans, once quipped that he wanted to be “the student of men whose son I should like to be as well.” It is a critical consideration […]