Brigid Delaney has been immersed in Stoicism since 2018 – and has had plenty of cause to use it since. Here’s a cheat sheet of what she learned

  • Brigid Delaney’s new book about Stoicism, Reasons Not To Worry, is out now

It was fortuitous that I started getting interested in Stoicism around 2018 – because by the time the pandemic came around, I really needed it.

“Cometh the hour, cometh the woman!” I said, Epietcus’s Enchiridion in hand, as the borders shut in March 2020 and friends started to hit me up for Stoic advice. “Inject that Stoicism into my veins!” they would text.

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