A Guide to Stoic Exercises

Six of the Best Practices for Emotional Resilience

Photo of the Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounio. Copyright the author, Donald Robertson, 2021.

Stoicism is experiencing a renaissance in popularity. This arguably started because it provided the philosophical inspiration for the pioneers of cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) in the 1950s and 1960s. By the 1980s, CBT had become the leading evidence-based form of modern psychotherapy. However, around the start of the 21st…