From time to time I send out a book-gift to some of the people in my life that I value. It’s one of the many great life lessons that I learned from Mohnish Pabrai. Last year, the book that I picked to send out was “The Art of the Good Life” by Rolf Dobelli.
I originally met Rolf at one of the TED conference in Long Beach and was lucky enough to be invited to his annual World Minds Symposium.
Rolf is an essayist and stoic philospher — who likes to learn from the emininent dead — aling with the eminent living. His masters include Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger and others.
The Art of the Good Life is a modern take on stoic philosophy. Of great interest tome is Rolf’s claim that all great value investors: Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger and others are, in their essence, Stoics.
I have really enjoyed seeing some of the recipients post photographs of the book as they received them.
There were a couple of other responses that I really liked.
First was Preston Push and Stig Broderson’s decision to have the book be the subject of one of their podcasts on The Investor’s Podcast.
