I recently finished Stoicism and the Art of Happiness by Donald Robertson, a Scottish-born CBT practitioner and student of both Stoicism and Buddhism. I came to this book having read enough about CBT to be familiar with its main concepts, and many, many books on Buddhism. On Stoicism, I’d only read Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations. While I’m sure that book is excellent source material, it is a poor introduction to Stoicism.

I just finished this book, the first I’ve read from this author. It’s an incredibly deep and quietly disturbing book. The kind of book I’d have loved to write a paper on in college. There are a lot of themes and angles at play, but what stuck out for me was the backhanded reminder about mortality and the human condition.