What Is So Bad About Stoicism?
It’s popular, it has big names supporting it, and it’s a philosophy to avoid.
As someone who loves talking about mindsets and how people think, philosophy is something I've dabbled in as well. I think of it as a hybrid between religious thought and human psychology. There’s a predictable belief system that sets the foundation for each school of thought.
This is the impression that I get from the popular philosophy right now: Stoicism.
It’s gained a resurgence lately as books on Stoicism fill bookshelves in the “Philosophy” section. This is on top of people like Ryan Holiday, Tim Ferris, and Patrick Bet-David tweeting, writing, and talking about Stoicism and how it’s guiding their lives.
That active promotion has garnered the interest of CEOs, professional athletes, and the people at Silicon Valley to gobble this up and weave it into their lives to further promote it. To them, this is yet another gateway in the same way they encourage intermittent fasting will boost your productivity.
And just like that phenomenon, it’s terribly misguided. Worse, it’s roping many unsuspecting individuals into adopting bad ideologies.
