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Una biblia

Revisado en España el 20 de junio de 2019

Hace ahora un año y medio me introduje en la filosofía estoica, bien, sin duda puedo decir que es una de las mejores decisiones que he tomado. Sin querer faltar a ningún conocimiento, en la escuela nos enseñan cosas sobre ciencias cuando lo más probable es que la mayoría de los estudiantes no acaben siendo científicos, sin embargo nadie nos enseña a gestionar emociones y en cambio todo el mundo va a tener relaciones, se va a sentir triste, alegre, enfadado... Para mí este libro es un muy buen resumen de los pilares del estoicismo que tendría que servir como una biblia. Es gracioso lo fácil que puede llegar a ser identificarse con las situaciones que propone el libro a la vez que ves que son situaciones que ya se daban hace miles de años. En fin, lectura fácil y muy recomendable.

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Fran A.

Repite lo mismo

Revisado en España el 19 de noviembre de 2020

Visto que este libro era bastante recomendado, sobretodo por personas a las que les gusta la filosofía estoica, me animé a comprarlo. El libro simplemente repite conceptos al estilo "never giv up", ha sido como leer un libro motivacional vacio y americanizado. No aporta nada nuevo, sus argumentos se basan en contar las vivencias muy edulcoradas de personajes históricos cosa repitiendo todo el rato lo mucho que se esforzaron, lo diferentes que eran, lo especiales que eran, lo chulos que eran y demás tonterías cosa que me parece bastante aburrida si tienes un mínimo de criterio.

Lo compararía con la típicas frases escritas en los azucarillos.

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Fran A.

Repite lo mismo

Revisado en España el 19 de noviembre de 2020

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No me ha aportado nada

Revisado en España el 16 de octubre de 2019

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Es el típico libro con el que estás de acuerdo en casi todo lo que dice. Texto con energía que te alenta al never give up, pero que yo encuentro algo falto de profundidad. Es como un predicador evangelista, pero a nivel técnico, con lenguaje adaptado al público estoico y sin decir aleluya. Un poco aburrido, dice siempre lo mismo pero con diferentes palabras.
(PD. es mi punto de vista, teniendo en cuenta que tengo formación y experiencia en ADE. Quizás a un lego le pueda ser de más utilidad)

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Neil Lucock

Best avoided, buy something better

Revisado en Reino Unido el 8 de febrero de 2018

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This had lots of good reviews and was recommended by a Stoic site, but I don't think it is worth having. I've read about half up to now and I'm losing interest, I doubt I'll finish reading it. Lots of heartwarming examples of people who were not actually Stoics but exhibited some form of Stoic behaviour don't really convince me that the author had anything useful to say. The book feels like he padded it out to make the word count, there's little in the way of original insights or things you didn't realise. The fact that he uses a lot of stories from American sports is something I personally find tedious, I have no idea who the people are or what he's writing about. I really dislike chapters that are three pages long. I also found his use of English was poor, it's not fluid, you constantly notice how he's expressed himself, rather than what he's said. Good English should be unobtrusive and flow from the page to the reader's mind without you noticing it.

He does explain the basics, so it's not a bad book to read if you have never encountered Stoic ideas before, but he doesn't seem to cover the subject in any depth. I'm waiting for him to introduce concepts like Eudaimonia and Apatheia, but this book reads too much like a self-help book for my taste. He's constantly offering military insights, not all of them accurate (The German attack on Poland in 1939 was a series of Kesselslachen, not Blitzkrieg). Lots of them are about American generals, quite a rich field where you can find many good examples, but after a quick introduction of Sherman (for example), he briefly discusses his personal qualities and he then moves on. Sherman wasn't a stoic (He was a Catholic as an adult), it's as if the author is trying to find things that can be used to support his views. Sherman was mired in controversy several times in his life and had a nervous breakdown in 1861. He was an effective general but not a good choice to support the book's narrative. This book is more like a magazine article or an essay written by someone who knows nothing about the subject but has researched it well on-line.
There are a lot of better books to read on the subject that offer more depth and better insights. I'd not recommend this book to anyone who showed any interest in the subject.

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Liam Kelleher

Nauseating, limited research and poorly written - made me angry, not stoic

Revisado en Reino Unido el 8 de junio de 2020

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Have you ever seen those ads on the internet? “Change your life today for only all of your money”. And you are taken to some badly written course outline that reeks of a pyramid scheme. The self help world is riddled with cons and Ryan Holiday is the latest addition.

The man is a tv marketer by background - he knows how to fool the masses. And he has somehow managed to get his online badly written life changing course printed.

He basically takes a few basic stoic concepts - don’t worry about what you can’t control, work hard, remain positive etc - and spin a book out of it. Throw in the names of Marcus Aurelius and Seneca along with some modern anecdotes and you are deemed a genius, according to a few people on the back (who clearly haven’t read the book or are part of the self help pyramid scheme)

The anecdotes themselves are horribly cliché. Just name drops people that everyone will know such as Edison, Lincol, Eisenhower, the Lakers (marketing 101 - don’t lose your audience). The bits and bobs of history are so basic and sometimes just wrong - I’m not sure he even bothered to google some of it.

The attempts at motivation amount to little other than “are you ready to go to work? Let’s get to work!”

The writing is blatantly dreadful and nauseating “Lincoln possessed an inner mental fortress that girdered him” Jesus.

It might seem like a good book if you are under 20 and haven't read any self help books before but if you’ve ever read any few before this, you will be quite disappointed with this.

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An A4 page article would have sufficed

Revisado en Reino Unido el 21 de septiembre de 2018

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I have both the audio book and the paper copy of this book. I first got the audio book and thought somehow the content sounded just plain repetitive - different words same message; so thought I'd read the book instead so that I can follow it with more attention. But it transpired that page after page after page may have been filled by the author with words but it is repetition, repetition, and yet more repetition of the message behind the content. If that was deliberate then well done to the author, he nailed it. For those readers and seekers of wisdom (or better understanding of stoicism) find and stick to a good translation of Meditations book of Marcus Aurelius instead; that's where you'll find the originality.

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tzb

Almost good, but poor choice of examples and ultra flexible attitude spoils things

Revisado en Reino Unido el 27 de abril de 2021

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I came to this book during a period of first discovering Stoic philosophy, and find the more I read from other sources, the less valuable this text is. Two things leap out as particularly strange about this one:

Firstly, the author's stance from article to article is so unreliable and flexible he often seems to contradict himself, rendering the book's advice almost useless. By offering a "balanced view" without suggesting how to know when to go one or the other, the reader is left no better off than before reading; surely we all know one approach will not fit all situations without reading a book?

Secondly, the author has chosen some extremely strange historical figures to derive examples from. Foremost here is Rommel, the famous Nazi tank commander. Rommel repeatedly appears as a figure of almost mythical strength and worthiness, praise and perspicacity; were I to choose a historical figure in my book of philosophical and moral guidance, it would not be an emblematic Nazi meth addict described as "worshipful" of Hitler, famous for battlefield atrocities, murdering prisoners of war and enslaving Jews.

All told, I won't be reading the other books in this series, and suggest the modern reader seek out good translations of Marcus Aurelius, Seneca's letters and Epictetus Discourses themselves. All are perfectly readable, almost miraculously relatable to modern life and do not require the interpreting (and quite obfuscating) lens this book offers.

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Richard M.

6 pints in?

Revisado en Reino Unido el 29 de abril de 2022

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I love the subject matter of this book, and was feeling inspired at the start, but started to get a bit tired of the tone and the wayward script. It read like the author got home from a session in the pub, sat in room of proverbs, picked up a pen and went on a rant. More so because some of the advice and lessons seemed contradictory; this guy a famous Orator because he ignored his disabilities, this guy became president because he accepted his disabilities. At one point he suggests that it’s fine to break law and regulations. ‘YOU make the regulations! ‘ What?

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David

Da sind interessante Gedanken dabei, es wird aber auch viel vermischt

Revisado en Alemania el 14 de enero de 2021

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Das Buch enthält interresante Gedanken und Geschichten. Da kann man durchaus was lernen. Und das kann auch motivierend sein.
Leider werden viele Dinge auch wild zusammengewürfelt. Ein Beispiel: In einem Kapitel geht es darum mit vermeintlichen Schwächen offensiv umzugehen. Dafür wird zunächst ein Beispiel aus dem Wahlkampf von Barack Obama angegeben. Darauf folgt dann eine Definition von Napoleon zum Thema Krieg, gefolgt von einem Verweis auf die Kriegsführung von Erwin Rommel. Das war mir persönlich zu wild.
Insgesamt sehe ich den Autor (Ryan Holiday) mittlerweile eher Kritisch. "Daily Stoic" ist nett, weil es kleine Happen sind. Man merkt jedoch, dass er aus der Marketing Ecke kommt. Die Inhalte sind auf die Zielgruppe optimiert, aber nicht unbedingt qualitativ hochwertig. Wenn man sich für Stoizismus interessiert, ist Donald Robertson meiner Meinung nach die hochwertigere Adresse.

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Cherry picked anecdotes, conflicting values and the unhealthy will to get it done

Revisado en Alemania el 31 de agosto de 2020

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I’m personally not a big fan how this book is structured: instead of giving a framework the book tries to convey stoicism by telling stories. These stories however seem to be cherry picked to drive the narrative of the book. For example: two stories of Steve Jobs are mentioned who, if you read the biography or saw any documentation about Mr. Jobs, was an excellent entrepreneur/business man but lacked virtue.

Another example is Rubin Carter: the author compresses his story to the point where it seems like he was a „one man army“ and got out of prison by reading books and sheer will power. Reading more into the story, he had massiv support and even Bob Dylan contributed a song for him which brought his case to the national attention.

Additionally, these stories and the explanations of the author introduce conflicting values, for example: in one chapter about being aggressive and push forward, the author states:
„But let’s ask an honest question: Could you be doing more? You probably could - there’s always more. At minimum, you could be trying harder“

… which is contradicted later with …
„There’s no need to sweat this or feel rushed.“

Finally, there is very little written about failure. There is a small chapter which is called „prepare for none of it to work“ and some sentences about failure are sprinkled across the chapters. The stories does not support failure, because each anecdotal story at the end „wins“ or at least the outcome is „be perseverant and you will reach your goal“. There is even the quote in the book „It’s okay to be discouraged. It’s not okay to quit.“

At the end of the book I had the feeling, that scam companies like Theranos where created with this mindset: it can be done, know you enemies, use their flanks, use their weaknesses, be aggressive, work harder, do the right thing at the right time (which you defined for yourself), don’t accept a no, push through it … and most important: never quit.

If you still reading this review, I would like to recommend you The Art and Power of Acceptance: Your Guide to Inner Peace . It has an identical topic (dealing with obstacles in life) but what I like about it:
- It gives you a framework
- It also work with anecdotal stories, but the stories are there to support and learn the framework
- The author offers instructions like breathing exercises to support the framework
- For me personally the stories where more relatable and „down to earth“
- The author does not shy away from failure

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Mark

Ok, not great

Revisado en Reino Unido el 1 de abril de 2019

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Decent book. Very much to the style of Robert Greene. Not much actionable advice given, for practical advice you must read William Irvine guide to the good life.

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