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  • Published: 2 July 2019
  • ISBN: 9781846045967
  • Imprint: Rider
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $32.99

Live Like A Stoic

52 Exercises for Cultivating a Good Life




The practical guide to applying Stoicism to our daily lives

The answers to our daily worries and anxieties – big or small – lie at the heart of Stoic philosophy. Live Like a Stoic is the essential guide to help us live the good life.

It offers a year-long programme of 52 weekly exercises aimed at mastering an array of real-life troubles. Full of practical lessons and sections for journaling, it provides all the tools needed to overcome any life obstacles we might face.

Massimo Pigliucci and Gregory Lopez have created a unique, personalised Stoic curriculum for a lifetime of practice, showing how relevant this ancient philosophy is to modern life.

  • Published: 2 July 2019
  • ISBN: 9781846045967
  • Imprint: Rider
  • Format: Trade Paperback
  • Pages: 336
  • RRP: $32.99

About the authors

Massimo Pigliucci

Massimo Pigliucci is an author, blogger, and podcaster, as well as the K. D. Irani Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York. His academic work is in evolutionary biology, philosophy of science, the nature of pseudoscience, and practical philosophy. His books include the bestselling How to Be a Stoic: Using Ancient Philosophy to Live a Modern Life (Basic Books, 2017) and Beyond Stoicism—A Guide to the Good Life with Stoics, Skeptics, Epicureans, and Other Ancient Philosophers (with Gregory Lopez and Meredith Kunz, The Experiment, 2025). He has been published in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and Big Think, among others. He lives in New York City.

Gregory Lopez

Gregory Lopez has a Master’s degree in molecular biophysics. He is founder and facilitator of the New York City Stoics meetup, co-host of Stoic Camp New York, Director of Membership for the Stoic Fellowship, co-organizer of STOICON 2016, and on the team at Modern Stoicism. He also runs a charity that uses cognitive behavioral therapy, which is what led to his interest in Stoicism.

Praise for Live Like A Stoic

A wonderful and potentially life-altering way to encounter the wisdom of the Stoics, Live Like a Stoic provides readers with structured lessons and exercises to explore Stoic philosophy alongside the lives they, themselves, are living

Professor William B. Irvine, author of A Guide to the Good Life