Of course, the book is packed with Big Ideas so, KABAM! Let’s throw on our spandex tights and capes and jump straight in. If that sounds like fun, I’ll think you’ll enjoy it as well. I loved diving into some of the deeper philosophical questions inherent to our modern superhero tales. Tom edited it with his son, Matt-which makes me think of *another* book we’ve featured on the wisdom of superheroes written by a dynamic father-son duo: Deepak Chopra and his son Gotham who wrote The Seven Spiritual Laws of Superheroes. It’s a collection of essays written by some of the smartest and wisest academic philosophers out there. (He’s also the philosopher behind Philosophy for Dummies and wrote If Aristotle Ran General Motors and If Harry Potter Ran General Electric.) I got this book after he and I had an electric chat about Optimize 2020 and the role of The Modern Hero. We’ve featured two of his other books in which he brings ancient wisdom to our modern lives: True Success and The Art of Achievement. He also taught at Notre Dame for 15 years before becoming one of the most sought-after practical philosophers. from Yale in both Philosophy and Religious Studies. Tom Morris is one of my favorite modern philosophers. If you’re looking for “A Philosopher’s Guide to Becoming Tougher, Calmer, and More Resilient,” I think you’ll enjoy it as much as I did. In fact, I’m going to put this one right at the top of our growing collection of books on Stoicism-along with the must-read classics by Aurelius (Meditations), Seneca (Letters from a Stoic, On the Shortness of Life), and Epictetus (Discourses, Enchiridion) plus the modern classics like Ryan Holiday’s The Obstacle Is the Way and The Daily Stoic. I enjoyed that one quite a bit but I REALLY (!) enjoyed this one. We featured another one of Professor Irvine’s great books on Stoicism called A Guide to the Good Life. In the words of Donald Robertson (another Stoic author and practitioner see The Philosophy of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy), he is both a librarian AND a warrior of the mind. And… Unlike many of his academic, professor-of-philosophy peers, he is a practicing Stoic philosopher. The book is filled with brilliant examples across all topics and history, about where ego can block us from. He’s also a fantastic (and prolific) writer. I just finished reading Ego Is The Enemy by Ryan Holiday, one of my favourite writers. Irvine is a professor of philosophy at Wright State University.
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