8 books like Meditations
Meditations is a private notebook. Marcus Aurelius reminds himself to accept what he cannot control, do his duty, and not be ruled by anger or praise. These eight include a modern Stoic handbook, Ryan Holiday's books, and writers who reached similar ideas by other roads.
- A Guide to the Good LifeWilliam Irvine#1
A Guide to the Good Life
by William Irvine
The best next step if you want Stoicism as a practice. Irvine, a philosophy professor, turns the ancient texts into concrete techniques, such as imagining the loss of what you have.
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#2The Obstacle Is the Way
by Ryan Holiday
Holiday builds a whole book on one passage from Meditations: what stands in the way becomes the way.
Shared theme: Stoicism + Stoic philosophy
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The Daily Stoic
by Ryan Holiday
A year of short daily passages from Marcus, Seneca and Epictetus, each with commentary. Meditations in the same small doses it was written in.
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#4Ego Is the Enemy
by Ryan Holiday
Marcus kept warning himself not to be carried away by power and praise. Holiday writes that warning out at length, with modern examples.
Shared theme: Stoicism + Stoic philosophy
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#5Man’s Search for Meaning
by Viktor E. Frankl
Not called Stoic, but close. In the camps Frankl found that the one freedom left was the attitude a person takes to their situation.
Shared theme: Stoicism + Stoic philosophy, meaning + purpose
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#6The Courage to Be Disliked
by Ichiro Kishimi & Fumitake Koga
Adler's separation of tasks is near the Stoic split between what is up to us and what is not, told as a conversation.
Shared theme: Stoicism + Stoic philosophy, meaning + purpose
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#7The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
by Eric Jorgenson
Naval Ravikant's short reflections on wealth and happiness, collected by Eric Jorgenson. A modern notebook read the way Meditations is: a few lines at a time.
Shared theme: meaning + purpose
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#8Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging
by Sebastian Junger
Marcus wrote that people are made to work together, like hands and feet. Junger looks at what happens to people when that shared life is missing.
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