Philosophy for Any Life an open-source self-help book Zachary G. Augustine Philosophy for Any Life Philosophy for Any Life an open-source self-help book By Zachary G. Augustine v1.0 29 September 2015 This work is freely available at www.philosophyforanylife.com This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 In- ternational License. You are free to copy and redistribute it in any manner, so long as you attribute the author. You are free to remix or otherwise build upon this work, so long as you attribute the original author, note your changes, and distribute your con- tributions under the same license as the original. The license of this work does not apply to the works cited within or passages quoted which remain the property of their original authors. I have made every effort to use these works in a fair manner. Section 107 of the US Copyright Act which allows the use of copyrighted works for scholarly, educational, or critical purposes. Cover photograph by Sébastien Marchand, licensed under a Creative Commons Zero license and distributed through Unsplash. The photograph has been color-cor- rected and cropped for the cover designed by Zachary G. Augustine. Author photograph by Timi Koyejo. The body text is set in EB Garamond, an open-source font based on scans of the original Garamond letterforms. The display text is set in TeX Gyre Heroes, a freely-licensed font based on Helvet- ica. First edition published 29 September 2015. This is v1.0. Contents Introduction: Philosophy and You i Part I: Life Power 1 Fundamentals 5 Three Stoic Disciplines 13 Chicken 25 Simple Rules 34 Patterns in Nature 37 Virtue in the Storm 45 Macedonia 47 Parts of the Whole 65 Flex 69 Dis-ease (Mental Health) 74 Exhale 88 Part II: Liberty Bottom of the Barrel 98 Free Your Mind 104 Simplicity’s Deception 114 Gilded Pleasures 120 How to Read 131 Bighorn Basin 135 Trees from Ash 145 The Social Animal 148 Leather 152 Flux 156 Frozen Feet 166 K(no)w Limits 171 Part III: and the Pursuit Choice 179 Please Shut Up 182 Effort 183 Do It 188 Incendiary 189 Habit 192 Resolve 195 Tough and Competent 198 Digestion 201 Premolars 206 No Small Difference 211 The View from Above 219 Colossal 223 The Hero Appears 228 The Last Good Emperor 236 Light a Fire 247 To Be… 251 Conclusion: Choose 254 Appendices 257 Notes 271 References 288 Acknowledgments 302
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