Discourses (collected works of Epictetus)

This book by Epictetus was genuinely recommended once in the episodes we index, on Tim Ferriss. The people who vouched for it on air: Jonathan Haidt. It comes up in conversations about consciousness, psychedelics. Every quote below is verbatim, attributed, and linked to the exact second it was said. Sourced expert opinion, not medical advice.

• “And then also Epictetus, his collected works. And what I do whenever I read, I do all my reading electronically now”

  Why it counts as a recommendation: “my favorite two are Marcus Aurelius' Meditations... And then also Epictetus, his collected works”
  Jonathan Haidt · The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 202201:53:25

  Said during "The Coddling of the American Mind and How to Become Intellectually Antifragile, Jonathan Haidt". The episode features Jonathan Haidt: Social psychologist at NYU's Stern School of Business; author of The Happiness Hypothesis, The Righteous Mind, and (with Greg Lukianoff) The Coddling of the American Mind; founder of Heterodox Academy. Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt on antifragility, moral pluralism, why universities and kids are breaking, and getting smarter, stronger, more sociable.