We City Stoics like nice things. Pleasant, in turn, means pleasing. Something that falls within the realm of personal responsibility is organising your own day-to-day affairs. Mailboxes are like that. Letters, bills, deliveries and magazines are put…
The Stoic has great admiration for electricians, plumbers and carpenters who arrive at their workplace with a couple of big toolboxes, get to work and not a single tool is missing! There is no way of knowing in advance what particular pinky finger...
"There is a kind of sadness that comes from knowing too much, from seeing the world as it truly is. It is the sadness of understanding that life is not...
One way of opening up stoastadism is to explore the differences with classical stoicism. Let us mention ten features here, the rest of the differences will emerge gradually, in different practical contexts. No peace of mind. urban stoic does not seek peace of mind, especially...
Football is about organising around the ball. The main problem for the player and the team is that if the organisation is good, the opponent will do anything to destroy it. Another big problem is that a lack of technique...
It is very curious that for the last two millennia, the question of why Ancient Rome was destroyed has been almost the sole interest of historians of ideas, historians, economists and theologians in relation to Ancient Rome. Various theories have been put forward...
Classical Stoicism has many good points, but here are ten that are still, especially from today's perspective, fully relevant.
Groucho Marx's sleeve-stitching beats his namesake Karl Marx's sleeve-stitching in both fun and, above all, usefulness. Sometimes they are even very stoic, for example the phrase: "Before I speak, I have an important...