Seneca - How to Keep Your Cool | Full Audiobook

📚 How to Keep Your Cool: An Ancient Guide to Anger Management - Seneca 🎧
In his essay On Anger (De Ira), the Roman Stoic thinker Seneca (c. 4 BC-AD 65) argues that anger is the most destructive passion: “No plague has cost the human race more dear.” This was proved by his own life, which he barely preserved under one wrathful emperor, Caligula, and lost under a second, Nero. This splendid new translation of essential selections from On Anger, presented with an enlightening introduction, offers listeners a timeless guide to avoiding and managing anger.
Drawing on his great arsenal of rhetoric, including historical examples (especially from Caligula’s horrific reign), anecdotes, quips, and soaring flights of eloquence, Seneca builds his case against anger with mounting intensity. Like a fire-and-brimstone preacher, he paints a grim picture of the moral perils to which anger exposes us, tracing nearly all the world’s evils to this one toxic source. But he then uplifts us with a beatific vision of the alternate path, a path of forgiveness and compassion that resonates with Christian and Buddhist ethics.
Seneca’s thoughts on anger have never been more relevant than today, when uncivil discourse has increasingly infected public debate. Whether seeking personal growth or political renewal, listeners will find, in Seneca’s wisdom, a valuable antidote to the ills of an angry age.
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I AM NOT PUTTING ANY MARKERS FOR THE CHAPTERS, BECAUSE I WANT YOU GUYS TO LISTEN THE WHOLE BOOK AND INCORPORATE THESE TEACHINGS/IDEAS IN YOUR LIFE.
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