What explains the recent interest in Stoicism—and some potential drawbacks to the popular trend
on behalf of his clients includes, allegedly on his own admission, “forging and leaking documents, creating fake Twitter accounts and buying web traffic for blog posts he generated.” He is now selling Stoicism.it is, indeed, Mr. Holiday—and I can find no best-selling popular books about Stoicism before his 2014though there may be—who began what some have called the “Popstoicism” movement, that would be a remarkable fact, and one deserving of analysis.
How might one achieve these things? By reassessing one’s own priorities. Human beings, on this view , are to be identified not with their successes and failures, or with the strokes of good or bad luck they may experience, but with their own characters. Our characters, however, are up to us. In this sense, what matters above all else is not subject to chance.and unhappiness do not reside simply in external events but in our reactions to events.