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One of the great fears many of us face is that despite all our effort and striving, we will discover at the end that we have wasted our life. In A Guide to the Good Life, William B. Irvine plumbs the wisdom of Stoic philosophy, one of the most popular and successful schools of thought in ancient Rome, and shows how its insight and advice are still remarkably applicable to modern lives. In A Guide to the Good Life, Irvine offers a refreshing presentation of Stoicism, showing how this ancient philosophy can still direct us toward a better life.

Using the psychological insights and the practical techniques of the Stoics, Irvine offers a roadmap for anyone seeking to avoid the feelings of chronic dissatisfaction that plague so many of us. Irvine looks at various Stoic techniques for attaining tranquility and shows how to put these techniques to work in our own life. As he does so, he describes his own experiences practicing Stoicism and offers valuable first-hand advice for anyone wishing to live better by following in the footsteps of these ancient philosophers. Listeners learn how to minimize worry, how to let go of the past and focus our efforts on the things we can control, and how to deal with insults, grief, old age, and the distracting temptations of fame and fortune. We learn from Marcus Aurelius the importance of prizing only things of true value, and from Epictetus we learn how to be more content with what we have.

Finally, A Guide to the Good Life shows listeners how to become thoughtful observers of their own lives. If we watch ourselves as we go about our daily business and later reflect on what we saw, we can better identify the sources of distress and eventually avoid that pain in our life. By doing this, the Stoics thought, we can hope to attain a truly joyful life.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio; Unabridged edition (May 17, 2016)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1522632735
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1522632733
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About the Author

William B. Irvine is professor of philosophy at Wright State University. The author of seven books, including The Stoic Challenge and A Guide to the Good Life, he has also written for the Wall Street Journal, Huffington Post, Salon, Time, and the BBC. He lives in Dayton, Ohio.

James Patrick Cronin is an accomplished audiobook narrator with over 100 titles to his credit. A classically trained stage actor with an MFA from the University of Louisville, he has performed as an actor and a comedian on stages all over the world.

Book Review

Name: Paul Frandano
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: StoicismThanksgivingEveryDayandthensome
Date: Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2018
Review: The Stoics sought tranquility and a consequent joy in, and thankfulness for, the lives we have as core parts of an answer to the venerable ancient question, "How should I live my life?" In 2018 America, tranquility and joy sound like a good deal...if you can get it. I'm a retired intelligence analyst. I spent my entire professional life looking at the potential downside for American interests in the behaviors of foreign leaders and states and in regional developments that affect allied interests--and thus US alliances and interests. There's not a lot of tranquility in the national security business. It's filled with anxiety and fears and worrisome days and weeks. You get used to it. You cope.You know, though, in the quiet recesses of your mind, that "stress kills." You hear it from the Doc every12 months. "Yeah, yeah, I know, I know, I hear you, I exercise and I've got my blood pressure down, I'm making making a point of trying to reduce the amount of friction in my life, if not the numbers of stressful situations." And in retirement, you can carve out more time to think about distractions from things that get you riled up, or sadden you, or fill you with fear or anxiety when you face the encroaching reality that "all things human are short-lived and perishable," including you.Stoicism doesn't rescue you so much as train you to manage unproductive emotions and thoughts, beginning by bundling up, or triaging, your concerns according to a fundamental trichotomy--expanded by author William Irvine from a classical dichotomy posed by the Stoic philosopher Epictetus (Some things are up to us, other things are not)--of "things I have no control over, things I have absolute control over, and things I have some measure of control over." We can exert control over our goals, values, what we formulate as our life philosophy. We have no control over the sunrise, or of the past--what's happened has happened--or, as a federal annuitant, over trade or immigration policy or other acts of people in high office over whom we have no means of influence. We have some control over our professional lives but cannot guarantee success in every endeavor, only that we'll do our very best, our utmost to fulfill the mission.Hence there's a broad category of things beyond my control that I'd be foolish to spend much time fretting over. As the great Stoic and Emperor of Rome Marcus Aurelius observed, "Nothing is worth doing pointlessly." It's more productive to spend my time on cultivating my own garden of tranquility and on worrying the things I can affect. This is very like Niebuhr's serenity prayer: Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference."Author Irvine is a pleasant cicerone on our journey into Stocism, focusing on the four Roman Stoics whose writings seem to him most relevant to us today: Epictetus, Seneca, Musonius Rufus, and Marcus. He divides his book into four broad parts. In part one, he discusses the birth of philosophy and, in greater detail, the rise of Stoicism. In part two, he inventories and lays out psychological techniques devised by the Stoics for developing and maintaining tranquility, perhaps the most important of which is "negative visualization," the art of reasoning through our fears or anger--"what's the worst than can happen"--or through the sources of our happiness or unhappiness, the latter of which is (as research suggests) often rooted in the insatiable character of life in a mass-consumer society. Part three discusses "Stoic advice" across a broad array of concerns: social relations, insults, grief, anger, luxurious living, the desire for fame and fortune, aging, death. The entertaining concluding part is Irvine's often humorous reflections on how he's walked the Stoic walk.I flatter myself to think that reading, and thinking through, and beginning the practice of "the ancient art of Stoic joy" over the past two weeks has begun to soften me and mute my anger (along with canceling the papers and most magazines). I'd like to be kinder. A better citizen. Calm. Tranquil. Thankful for all I have: family, friends, interests, a decent place to live in a nice city. I'll give this a shot, as Irvine recommends, as a "stealth Stoic" (although I've already outed myself. No matter: no one reads a thing I've posted here...) But I'm withholding a star, and will probably update these remarks at some point, as I progress, or don't, in Stoicism.And I'm wishing myself luck on this.I think I'm into something good.Thanks, Bill.

Name: R. G.
Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars
Title: Somesectionspotentiallylifechangingmostofitisskimmableorevenskippable
Date: Reviewed in the United States on January 20, 2021
Review: Section one is the history of Stoicism. I understand its inclusion in the book and reading it was somewhat interesting, but it's not a section I would come back to and reread.Section two describes Stoic Psychological Techniques. This section is the good stuff. Now that I've finished the book, I'm going to go right back to section two and create some "cheat sheet" notecards for myself to incorporate the techniques into my daily life. (You'll notice I did not summarize section two. That's because I think the book is worth purchasing for that section alone, so I'm not going to spoil it.)Section three was long, redundant, illogical in places and at times simply strange. I cannot picture who this section was written for. It obviously fell flat for me. The examples were often bizarre, and there were too many conclusions that did not track with what came before. Here's an example from the opening paragraph of chapter fifteen:"Besides valuing fame, people typically value wealth. These two values seem independent, but a case can be made that the primary reason we seek wealth is that we seek fame. More precisely, we seek wealth because we realize that the material goods our wealth can buy us will win the admiration of people and thereby confer on us a degree of fame. But if fame isn't worth pursuing, and if our primary reason for seeking wealth is so we can gain fame, then wealth shouldn't be worth pursuing either. And according to the Stoics, it isn't."Now, I'm not arguing the conclusion that we shouldn't seek wealth (or fame for that matter). But while Irvine has stated that "a case can be made that the primary reason we seek wealth is that we seek fame" he does not make that case! Then he slyly shifts from "a case can be made..." to "if our primary reason is..." This is one example of many throughout section three where the case for Irvine's conclusion is obfuscated. Again, I agree that we shouldn't seek wealth or fame, but Irvine hasn't made a case for why that's his (or the Stoics') conclusion.Irvine also spends a full ten pages on how to respond to insults. I'm not sure who Irvine is hanging around with that he's being insulted so frequently, but...ten pages?! The entire 80-page section could have been boiled down to ten pages and it would have had much more impact.By the time the fourth section came around, the writing had become repetitive and the reading tedious. We're being told the same key points for the third and fourth times.In the end, I would suggest reading the book this way:- Read section one if you're into the historical background of Stoicism, otherwise skim it.- Read section two with care. Reflect on the techniques and consider how to incorporate them into your life. I'm planning on making notecards for each of the techniques so I can keep them handy and make them a foundational part of my life.- Skip section three.- Read the first five and a half pages of chapter 22.- Spend more time as needed or wanted with section two.I have rated the book three stars because section two is so valuable, but in all reality, that section could have been a pamphlet or a series of blog posts.

Name: SLM
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars
Title: PhilosophypsychotherapyREBT
Date: Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2017
Review: Irvine presents an accessible overview of the early Stoics and then consolidates their thinking according to specific topics such as anger, old age, grief, etc. Most helpful is his collection of Stoic techniques - ways to implement Stoic philosophy in your own life.As a Stoic, Irvine has a lot of criticism for current psychological approaches to dealing with life's challenges. He says that "the consensus view among psychological therapists is that we should stay in touch with our emotions: Rather than try to deny their existence, we should contemplate them, and rather than trying to bottle them up we should vent them." He contrasts this with the Stoic approach, which doesn't require that we bottle up our emotions, but does "help us to to take steps to prevent negative emotions and to overcome them when our attempts at prevention fail."This criticism is valid for much of popular psychology and many psychological professionals as well. There is one psychological approach, however, that is explicitly based on Stoicism: Rational-Emotive-Behavioral Therapy (REBT). REBT was developed by Albert Ellis, who wrote many books teaching people how to identify and correct the thinking that causes them emotional upset. If you want practical advice about how to live as a Stoic, without having to read about ancient philosophers, get one of the several books by Ellis.

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