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This book was assigned to me by my BBQ pitmaster, who thought it might hold a bunch of lessons that our team might employ as we approach the 2015 competition BBQ season.
Trust me, I realize how weird that first sentence is.
While this book was an excellent primer on Stoic concepts and lessons, I sometimes felt like I was reading a collection of somebody's LiveJournal essays. Key tenets of the philosophy were boiled down into easily digestible chapters (no more than 6 pages, often just 3 or 4). Each tenet was usually anchored by an example featuring a key public figure -- your Steve Jobs, Amelia Earhart, Abraham Lincoln, and John D. Rockefellers of the world.
I don't read a lot of books aimed at the "learned executive," but I get the sense the aforementioned structure is something that is pretty standard. And while I can see the advantages, I'm not sure it's quite what I want out of a paper book.
This book did point me to other books by Seneca and Marcus Aurelius -- underlying texts, if you will -- that I look forward to digesting.
It's a good introduction to Stoicism, although I feel like its attempt to be actionable and immediately relevant resulted in a fairly shallow substance.
Trust me, I realize how weird that first sentence is.
While this book was an excellent primer on Stoic concepts and lessons, I sometimes felt like I was reading a collection of somebody's LiveJournal essays. Key tenets of the philosophy were boiled down into easily digestible chapters (no more than 6 pages, often just 3 or 4). Each tenet was usually anchored by an example featuring a key public figure -- your Steve Jobs, Amelia Earhart, Abraham Lincoln, and John D. Rockefellers of the world.
I don't read a lot of books aimed at the "learned executive," but I get the sense the aforementioned structure is something that is pretty standard. And while I can see the advantages, I'm not sure it's quite what I want out of a paper book.
This book did point me to other books by Seneca and Marcus Aurelius -- underlying texts, if you will -- that I look forward to digesting.
It's a good introduction to Stoicism, although I feel like its attempt to be actionable and immediately relevant resulted in a fairly shallow substance.