Nick HutchisonFounder and CEO, BookThinkers

1-Minute Book Tip: Lives of the Stoics by Ryan Holiday

20 Sept 2020 · 1 min

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In this brief YouTube segment, Nick Hutchison recommends Ryan Holiday’s upcoming book Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius. He highlights the book’s value in introducing lesser‑known Stoic figures such as Antipater the Ethicist, who translated Stoic debate into everyday guidance. Hutchison points out the practical Stoic lessons covered—raising a family, choosing a spouse, managing emotional instability, and confronting mortality—emphasizing their relevance to modern life. He dismisses abstract philosophical debates as irrelevant to daily living, urging viewers to preorder the book, which releases on September 29, promising it could be life‑changing.

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Do you study Stoic philosophy? If not, you should watch today's video because we're going to focus on Ryan Holiday's new book, Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius. I've got Marcus over my left shoulder here. What I loved about this book is I learned about some new philosophers like Antipater the Ethicist. He was the first person to bring Stoic philosophy from the debate in political stages down to the average person's life. And so Stoicism deals with things that we all face, even though guys like Antipater lived 2,000 years ago. How to raise a family, how to select the right spouse, how to deal with emotional instability, how to confront your own mortality. We're not going to sit here and argue about whether or not we're in a simulation because that won't impact your life today. Stoic philosophy will. So make sure you preorder a copy of this book. It could change your life. Comes out on September 29th.