Overthinking is exhausting — it clouds your mind, steals your peace, and drains your energy. But the Stoics had a solution.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. This story is part of the October 19 edition of Sunday Life.See all 14 stories. A few years ago, my application for a pay rise had been ...

Barbara Ehrenreich’s latest book, Bright-Sided, offers a damning indictment of the ideology of positive thinking, which she sees as the fundamental flaw in American life. When she found herself ...

Starching the upper lip is back in vogue. Not that it ever went away. Stoicism has gone in and out of fashion since its foundations were laid by the Cypriot Zeno, sometime around 300BCE. What we ...

Little did Zeno of Citium know that 2,300 years after he founded Stoicism in the street-schools of Athens, fragments of his thought would be passed around Silicon Valley by latte-swilling millennials ...

When life hits harder than expected, these eight reads offer more than motivation. They teach steadiness, discipline, and the ...

It’s sunrise and I’m sitting on a park bench with my eyes closed. A voice on my headphones tells me to mentally rehearse the attitudes I wish to exhibit in the day ahead. “If you doze off to sleep ...

Robert Rosenkranz is a self-made billionaire. His key to success: stoic philosophy. In his new book, “The Stoic Capitalist: Advice for the Exceptionally Ambitious,” Rosenkranz shares how ancient ...

Scholars have long recognised the interest of the Stoics' thought on geometrical limits, both as a specific topic in their physics and within the context of the school's ontological taxonomy.