The Great Misconception: Embracing Emotion in Stoicism

How Stoic texts get misinterpreted by the modern mind.

As a self-proclaimed Stoic, I’m bored. I’ve been reading and practicing Stoicism for nearly a decade. It has helped me profoundly. But the more mainstream it becomes, the more magic it loses.

I don’t think we should position Stoicism as life’s shortcut to rational…