Started The Bands of Mourning by Brandon Sanderson, 3rd book in the 2nd era of Mistborn.
It’s fun to read the antics of Wayne. Probably the most fun character in the book.
What about all of you? What have you been reading or listening to lately?
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Planning on reading this myself some time… since you say it’s relevant today, how would you say it compares to all the broicism that’s the main version of stoicism nowadays?
One of the key points is that stoicism actually really emphasizes the importance of community and being a good person who contributes to community. This is not at all what these “broicist alphas” value. According to my understanding of them, they incorrectly interpret stoicism being about repressing their feelings, being alone, putting themselves as number one, getting successful - showing everyone you are “alpha”. Stoicism is not at all about repressing feelings, rather it is about not letting your feelings control your actions. The book is relevant, for example since it covers struggling with uncertainty and anxiety and how to deal with it with the technique called dichotomy of control (you have power over your mind and not outside events, if you realize that, you will find strength). Also, Aurelius writes that understanding that we all will die and whether the life is a long or short one does not matter as it ends the same way (both lose the “now”) - what matters is that we do good things every day without expecting any reward for it. We should do it because that is what should be the humans’ nature and we should live according to nature.