THE DAILY STOIC
Praised by Maria Popova as 'a generous gift of guidance on modern living culled from a canon of wisdom hatched long ago', Ryan Holiday's The Daily Stoic has earned its place on the Sunday Times bestseller list, and it's not hard to see why. This is philosophy stripped of its academic armour and handed back to ordinary people who just want to live better. One page at a time. What does it actually mean to be successful? Where does genuine contentment come from? How do you sit with grief, or stop anger from running the show? These aren't abstract puzzles. They're the questions most of us carry quietly, and Stoicism, it turns out, has a great deal to say about all of them. Each daily entry opens with a quotation from figures like Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, or Epictetus, paired with historical context and commentary that gives the words real bite. Holiday doesn't just present these thinkers reverently behind glass. He puts them to work. The writing is grounded, calm, occasionally surprising. It builds self-awareness gradually, the way good habits do. Jack Canfield describes it as 'a richly rewarding spring of practical wisdom', and that feels about right. It's a book you return to rather than race through, one that quietly encourages focus, honest self-examination, and a steadier hand when life gets difficult.
- Author: Ryan Stephen Holiday Hanselman
- Publisher: Profile Books
- Genre: Business Strategy
- ISBN: 978-1781257654
- Pages: 416 pages