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One of the great fears many of us face is the fact that despite all our work and striving, we will discover by the end that people have lost our life. In A Guide to the Good Life, William B. Irvine plumbs the intelligence of Stoic viewpoint, one of the very most popular and successful universities of thought in early Rome, and shows how its perception and advice are still remarkably relevant to modern lives. In A Guide to the Good Life, Irvine offers a relaxing display of Stoicism, demonstrating how this early viewpoint can still lead us toward an improved life. Using the mental health insights and the functional techniques of the Stoics, Irvine offers a roadmap for anybody seeking to prevent the feelings of serious dissatisfaction that plague so many of us. Irvine looks at various Stoic techniques for attaining tranquility and shows how to place these ways to work inside our own life. As he will so, he represents his own experiences practicing Stoicism and will be offering valuable first-hand advice for anybody desperate to live better by pursuing in the footsteps of the early philosophers. Listeners learn how to minimize worry, how to let go of the past and target our initiatives on the things we can control, and how to deal with insults, grief, later years, and the distracting temptations of popularity and fortune. We learn from Marcus Aurelius the importance of prizing only things of true value, and from Epictetus we learn how to become more content with what we have. Finally, A Guide to the Good Life shows listeners how to be thoughtful observers of their own lives. If we watch ourselves as we go about our day to day business and later reflect on what we observed, we can better identify the sources of distress and eventually avoid that pain inside our life. Using this method, the Stoics thought, we can hope to attain a joyful life.
