{"product_id":"the-stoic-challenge-9780393652499","title":"The Stoic Challenge","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAncient Stoic insights combined with modern psychological research help us overcome—and even benefit from—everyday obstacles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Irvine is a warm and friendly Stoic, and one of the great guides through the subject. His congenial writing offers strategies for the anxiety-free, supple kind of sturdiness with which we should all be greeting ourselves and the world.\" -- Derren Brown, mentalist, illusionist, and author of Happy\u003cbr\u003e\"At this point, it’s helpful to turn to philosophy, which can fill the gap in tough times for people who are not religiously inclined... Recent and helpful books include... William Irvine’s \u003cem\u003eThe Stoic Challenge\u003c\/em\u003e; all draw on original materials such as the \u003cem\u003eDiscourses of Epictetus\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMeditations of Marcus Aurelius\u003c\/em\u003e. One of the simple but powerful threads running through them is the need to separate what you can control from what you can’t control, and focus all your thoughts and efforts on the former.\" -- Ceri Radford, What to read to stay sane during the coronavirus pandemic - The Independent","brand":"WW Norton \u0026 Co","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49525165162839,"sku":"9780393652499","price":19.94,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780393652499.jpg?v=1731859482","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-stoic-challenge-9780393652499","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}