Practical Stoicism
After reading a few books early in my studies of Stoicism, I quickly came to the conclusion that this was what I was looking for. Even knowing that, though, I had some struggles figuring out how to turn that into actual practice. One of the reasons I first joined this community was to get some pointers in that regard.
The irony was that one of the first posts I saw (the one Google linked to when I entered my question) was someone else asking the same question.
That set me on a quest to gather up tips on that topic and keep them close to hand. About half-way through the process, it occurred to me that it might be useful to others.
I've only been at this Stoicism thing a few months, so this may be a little presumptuous, but if anyone else is interested in the topic, the "practical" side of the philosophy - things you are supposed to be doing - well, here's what I've been able to put together.
Current Version: 1.1.2 (5/9/16) <-- Keep an eye on this
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I've been cleaning it up and polishing my language for a few days and, frankly, I'm about tired of looking at it. At this point, I'm putting it out there to see what other folks think. If you find it to be useful, I've released it under the Creative Commons license (Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike). Do with it what you will.
If you find any errors, broken links, formatting issues, or know of more applicable quotes than the ones I've used, let me know (in the least embarrassing manner you can). This is alpha software so I fully expect there to be some bugs. I'll fix them as they are reported and release them with the next revision.
I hope some of you find this helpful.
[EDIT] I should clarify that this is a short one - just 46 49 pages divided into 1-page "chapters". It's intended to be kept on-hand, like on your phone or tablet, and read periodically whenever you need some quick Stoic inspiration. This is not a 500-page tome of weighty exposition.
[EDIT 2] The following are a list of related postings and discussions on the individual chapters of the booklet:
Posted Mar 26, 2016, 12:39 AM UTC · edited