Modern Philosophy Basics

A Guide to the Good Life

William B. Irvine

The good life is not a destination. It's a daily practice.

How to Stop Worrying and Start Living

Dale Carnegie

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday — and all is well.

Lives of the Stoics

Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman

You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl

What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him.

Principles

Ray Dalio

Truth — or, more precisely, an accurate understanding of reality — is the essential foundation for any good outcome.

The Art of Loving

Erich Fromm

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.

The Happiness Hypothesis

Jonathan Haidt

Happiness is not something that you can find, acquire, or achieve directly. You have to get the conditions right and then wait.

The Obstacle Is the Way

Ryan Holiday

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.

Reality Transurfing (Steps I–V)

Vadim Zeland · 2016

The world is a mirror that reflects your relationship to it. When you fight the world it fights you back. When you end the battle the world meets you halfway.