Living Under Pressure
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Living Under Pressure
The Stoic exercise, step by step: from what we do with our time to equanimity in the face of fate.
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Step 1 · Still to readOn the Shortness of Life
Begin with Seneca's question of what we actually do with our time.
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Step 2 · Still to readLetters to Lucilius (selection)
From a single essay into Seneca's daily moral training in letters.
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Step 3 · Still to readEnchiridion
Epictetus sharpens the exercise: separate what is up to you from what is not.
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Step 4 · Still to readMeditations
Marcus Aurelius shows what those rules sound like in a life under constant pressure.
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Step 5 · Still to readThe Consolation of Philosophy
Boethius writes in prison, awaiting death: can philosophy console when everything falls away?