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Modern Philosophy Basics
Ancient wisdom, made useful for the way we actually live now.
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Collection index
A shelf with an argument.
Every collection gathers books around a practical life problem. Open the title that feels closest, then let the shelf widen the frame.
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William B. Irvine
A Guide to the Good Life
The good life is not a destination. It's a daily practice.
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Dale Carnegie
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday — and all is well.
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Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman
Lives of the Stoics
You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
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Viktor E. Frankl
Man's Search for Meaning
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.
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Ray Dalio
Principles
Truth — or, more precisely, an accurate understanding of reality — is the essential foundation for any good outcome.
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Erich Fromm
The Art of Loving
The mature person has come to the point where they are their own mother and their own father. Love is not primarily a relationship to a specific person; it is an attitude, an orientation of character.
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Jonathan Haidt
The Happiness Hypothesis
Happiness is not something that you can find, acquire, or achieve directly. You have to get the conditions right and then wait.
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Ryan Holiday
The Obstacle Is the Way
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
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A persuasion-literacy curriculum. Read these and you'll start to see the strings: in ads, in apps, in conversations, in your own head.
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Better Conversations, Better Life
Most of your relationships are made of sentences. Six books on listening hard, speaking clearly, and turning conflict into connection.
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