Peak Stoic 06 - Cool Head

Issue 6 of Peak Stoic. A 30-day Stoic practice journal on anger: the flash, the pause, the insult, and forgiveness. Each day gives you one passage from Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus or Seneca in a public-domain translation, checked word for word against the source, with a short note, a morning question, one practice to try, and a full page for the evening review.

Many of this month’s passages come from Seneca’s On Anger. Each week opens with a short essay and a worksheet: the anger log, Epictetus’s count-the-days grid with a delay plan, the insult test, and the pardon list. Three portraits of a cool head: Athenodorus, who taught Augustus to recite the alphabet before acting in anger; Sextius; and Marcus Aurelius after a revolt.

56 full-color, saddle-stitched pages that lie flat for writing, illustrated with photographs from Ephesus, Aphrodisias, Hierapolis and Selçuk. No earlier issues needed.