Is it for impressing people? Is it for exercising your brain? Is it to land a job at a university…teaching philosophy?
Certainly, philosophy is not nodding along to a podcast or an Instagram video. It's not to pump you up or make you feel good.
The point of philosophy—Stoic philosophy anyway—is to make you a better person. To make your life better. And through that, to lift up the lives of the people around you.
It is self-help in the truest sense—to help you live a good life and be a good person.
But this is easier said than done. Because first, you have to learn what the Stoics have to teach you (which is a lot) and then you have to apply it (putting these ancient ideas into modern practice). There's a lot to Stoicism, and it can feel overwhelming...and you're not alone in being intimidated by it. It's been intimidating for 2,500 years!
So where do you start? How do you put Stoicism into practice?
It's a 14-day course designed to kick-start your study and practice of Stoicism. To introduce you to Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, and other Stoics to learn what made them great, and what we can learn from them. What we should read, and how we should read it.
If you got upset even one less time with your spouse, or regained one evening from the grips of anxiety, or bounced back faster from something challenging or painful, what would that be worth? Now think across a lifetime.
Stoicism 101 will help you understand how to use Stoic philosophy to live a great life, to get real solutions to your problems—because it's more than some esoteric field of academic inquiry.
Ryan Holiday—author of bestselling books such as The Daily Stoic, Discipline Is Destiny, and The Obstacle is the Way—will be your instructor. He's taught Stoicism in NFL locker rooms, Fortune 500 boardrooms, in front of TED audiences, and to millions of people through his books. NOW, he'll be your personal teacher.
For far less than the tuition to even one "Intro to Philosophy" class at a community college, here's what you'll get:
14 custom emails delivered daily (~20,000 words of content)
2 LIVE Q&As with Ryan Holiday where you can ask all your Stoicism-related questions
Access to a private discussion board to ask questions, share thoughts, and interact with other attendees of the Stoicism 101 course
Access to previously recorded Office Hours with Ryan Holiday
Printable progress-tracker
Whether you're a beginner at Stoicism or you've been studying it for years, there is something to be gained by getting up and going to "school"—because learning, as Marcus said, is always a good thing.
Don't miss your chance to sign up for the 2025 LIVE SESSION. Take the next step in your Stoic education.
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