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Comment author: RichardKennaway 18 March 2015 04:59:01PM *  3 points [-]

Know any good self-help books published before 1700 ? :)

The Book of Proverbs? The Book of Baruch? Sermons from the past? Writings of the ancient Stoics?

Comment author: [deleted] 19 March 2015 07:53:43AM 0 points [-]

+1 for stoics, actually people like Nassim Taleb are re-inventing that and it seems to be a good way.

Comment author: seer 23 March 2015 01:12:41AM 5 points [-]

No, Taleb isn't "re-inventing" stoicism any more then every mechanic is "re-inventing" the wheel.

Comment author: [deleted] 23 March 2015 08:50:01AM 0 points [-]

You mean stoicism was always alive?

Comment author: RichardKennaway 19 March 2015 09:18:58AM 0 points [-]

More modern stoicism here, although personally, I think that the Modern Stoicism community treats stoicism too much as a package deal.

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