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A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
Philosophy
A modern entry point to Stoicism that reframes the ancient practice as a program for joy rather than gritted-teeth endurance. This was DHH's first Stoic book in 2014 and the one he hands to anyone curious about the philosophy.
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“In terms of Stoicism, I think what really got me turned on to that originally was sort of an introductory text that summarizes a lot of the work, which is A Guide to the Good Life.”
From DHH's Tim Ferriss Show transcript, where he names Irvine's book as the text that got him into Stoicism.
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Fried tells Tim Ferriss this book introduced him to Stoicism and to negative visualization, which he now uses for planning and preparation.
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Appears on Shopify's official list of startup books selected by Tobias Lütke; he has called it one of the books he gifts most often.
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#20 on the all-time Hacker News books list.
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Recommended in the cited tweet.
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