The Little Book of Stoicism: Timeless Wisdom to Gain Resilience, Confidence, and Calmness

By: Jonas Salzgeber

Narrated by: David Angelo

Length: 7 hrs and 17 mins

Publisher's summary

“How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?” (Epictetus, Stoic philosopher)

Where can you find joy? Gain strength? How should we face our fears? Deal with the death of a loved one? And what about those reoccurring depressing thoughts?

While traditional schooling doesn’t address such questions, it’s exactly what ancient schools of philosophy were all about: They taught you how to live. Even though these schools don’t exist anymore, you and I and most people are in as much need of a philosophy that guides us through life as we ever were.

This compelling, highly actionable guide shows you how to deal more effectively with whatever life throws at you and live up to your best self.

A mix of timeless wisdom and empowering advice, The Little Book of Stoicism will point the way to anyone seeking a calm and wise life in a chaotic world.

©2019 Jonas Salzgeber (P)2019 Jonas Salzgeber

A new vision

This book was recommended to me by my mentor. I’m glad I took the time to read and listen to it. This is the beginning of a be journey I will embark on… The journey of stoicism. Many parts of the book were like a mirror… I certainly haven’t been practicing Arête. There are many of the principles I need to be mindful of and place in to practice everyday from now on, especially now that I am a parent. One of the rare books that have changed my life and given me a new vision for the rest of my life… I appreciate this book so much.

It will revolutionize your life!!

One of the most influential books I’ve read in this lifetime! Great introduction to the philosophy of Stoicism for the aspiring Stoic.

Insightful book!

This was a great book to start off the new year with! Definitely recommend it. It’s a book you could reread / relisten to also!

excellent book!

loved this book, life changing. I forever will recommend this book to anyone I know. This book is a game changer.

Definitely Recommended

This book helps you realize a lot & will change how you act & think before doing the things that you we’re doing unconsciously since it’s embedded in your brain.

Essential wisdom, concisely distilled

This was a terrific book for a general audience. The author wastes no time and boils down the wisdom of Stoicism to its most basic teachings, provides a helpful rubric to organize those elements, and describes practical techniques to live a happier, more balanced life. I will widely recommend this book; we can all benefit by focusing more on the things we can control, striving to live as our best selves in harmony with our nature, and taking responsibility for our obligations and our reactions. Congratulations to the author for this excellent contribution.

Everything you need to know about stoicism!!

Excellent resource for stoic knowledge. This short book changed my entire mindset, and helped me live a better life.
Side note: I find it hilarious that people are bothered by the narration even though the book is about the art of not being bothered. Haha

Good material, a little dorky delivery

The narration is decent until they go to read any quote from an ancient philosopher. All of the quotes are done in a really strange accent that comes off as just silly. it was so hard to take those sections seriously. It stinks because I would love to share this with others, but I can't bring myself to tell them about the audio book, just the hard copy.

This book kicks butt!!

I’ve read and listened to many books on Stoicism. Many by the most popular author on Stoicism. All of them are filled with great info. Stoicism is great at helping you through the tough times but also a model for how to live a good and honorable life.
I love that this book breaks Stoicism down into lots of bit sized lessons. Very helpful info.
Get this book if you really want to understand Stoicism. My opinion is that it’s “top notch” and one of if not the best books on Stoicism.

Love the content but please add table of contents to audio books

Great book overall - love the content but please add table of contents to the audio book so its quick to navigate instead of having to waste time to find written table of contents and then wasting time to locate a specific section in the audio book - the various practices are almost impossible to find because like 20 of them are under a single “chapter” - what i could do in 15 seconds, i have to waste like 100 times the amount of time..
who knows - maybe i should just accept it and deal with the hand i got with your “wonderful” lack of audible TOC :))) kidding :) pls add a visual TOC so ppl can navigate the book and find and be able to come back to those various practices.. :)