Summary: Its not a type of book that you real only once and boom you will get benefit from it. NO, its not like that you have you read this again and again to draw all its information present in this book for you. But if you real this again and again than you will be able to understand a most thorough introduction to how to start Stoicism and how can it be used in modern life. The author does a very good job in combining stoicism with CBT advice, which gives the old text a new breadth of modern relevance. . Ignore the philosophical snobs(funny they call themselves stoic) who will tell you that they will understand Stoicism you need to refer to the ancient text of Aurelius or Epictetus like a bible. Of course, you should read them there is no harm in them but the modern world needed something which is grounded in modern well-researched practice. . In this book the thought is so well written and so demonstrative. The author clearly shows and understands the importance of placing ancient text within the modern context, and this thing which I really enjoyed during reading. . Don’t back off by its sightly repetitive nature. Don’t back off by the fact that the author name is not Aurelius. The only thing that the author (Donald Robertson) has proven with this book, its that one of the greatest thing about Stoicism is that the lesson given by stoicism is not to behold reverence of ancient almost bibical like figure. And the fact is that the beauty of stoic lessons is that they can be sown to hold a relevance that is according to modern life. And it is the idea and the lesson are themselves are the key, not those that are speaking themselves.
