Stoicism for Men Under Pressure

Someone takes credit for your work in a meeting, and you spend the drive home rehearsing what you should have said. Then you walk in the door and snap at the one person who had nothing to do with it.

This three-hour audiobook puts Stoic philosophy to work on the situations men actually deal with. Each chapter takes one idea from Marcus Aurelius, Seneca or Epictetus, retells it in plain modern English, and shows it inside an everyday scene like the skipped gym session or the tight month before payday. Then you get a concrete Stoic exercise with a pause built in, such as an evening review or a pre-meeting rehearsal, so you have already done something before the chapter ends. The six chapters follow the shape of your life, from work and money to fatherhood and leading a team.

You finish with habits you can use tomorrow morning and a steadier way of carrying pressure. Press play on the commute, and start with the situation that is bothering you most.