Happiness and Stoicism
On Ryan Holiday, Tim Ferriss, and Derren Brown
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8 min readJul 19, 2020
Every year, I teach a class that centers on happiness. I begin it with a simple question: “How many of you want to be happy?” And everyone always raises their hand.
I could start the class with the more appropriate philosophical question: “How many of you want to live a good life?” But I know better. The students would…