Ideas Worth
Sitting With
On motivation, philosophy, and the thinkers who figured out what a life is actually for.
Marcus Aurelius used it to govern an empire. Epictetus used it to survive slavery. Viktor Frankl used it to survive Auschwitz. What exactly is Stoicism — and why does it keep proving useful in the worst situations?
Read the essay →Napoleon Hill spent twenty years interviewing the most successful people in America and distilled what he found into one book. That was 1937. Here is what still applies — and why.
Read the essay →The most powerful man in the world kept a private journal he never intended anyone to read. It is still in print two thousand years later. Here is what it actually says.
Read the essay →On the surface they look like opposites: one built on discipline and reason, the other on energy and spirit. Strip away the different vocabularies and they are climbing toward the same summit.
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