My first intro­duc­tion to Stoic think­ing came from read­ing Vik­tor Frankl’s Man’s Search for Mean­ing; a pow­er­ful book show­ing how impor­tant self-discipline and atti­tude are in sit­u­a­tions that some may see as hopeless.

After dis­cussing Tim O’Reilly’s thoughts on Clas­sics last week, I was reminded of a post I’ve been mean­ing to read for a few months: a con­cise intro­duc­tion to Sto­icism by Ryan Hol­i­day. (Billed as being an intro­duc­tion ‘for entre­pre­neurs’, this merely means that it con­tains some real-world exam­ples of the phi­los­o­phy that you can put into prac­tice straight away, cut­ting through the aca­d­e­mic ambiguity.)

For fur­ther intro­duc­tions, Glyn Hughes’ Squashed Philoso­phers pro­vides con­densed ver­sions of many of the most impor­tant philo­soph­i­cal works (includ­ing mod­ern thinkers such as Tur­ing and Darwin).