by Aseem Gupta | Mar 13, 2025 | Personal Growth, Learning & Self-Development
Reading Time: 14 MinutesWhen people talk about resilience, they often imagine someone who can withstand enormous amounts of pain without breaking. The resilient person is supposed to endure failure, rejection, disappointment, and tragedy without complaining, losing...
by Aseem Gupta | Dec 20, 2024 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Reading Time: 43 MinutesReading about Stoicism is relatively easy. Applying its principles when someone insults you, a plan falls apart, or an important decision provokes anxiety is considerably harder. The ancient Stoics understood this distinction. They regarded...
by Aseem Gupta | Dec 13, 2024 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Reading Time: 50 MinutesThe Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living, by Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman, is a yearlong introduction to Stoic philosophy organized around one short meditation for every day of the calendar....
by Aseem Gupta | Aug 16, 2024 | Book Summaries and Analysis
Reading Time: 53 MinutesIn The Masculinity Manifesto: How a Man Establishes Influence, Credibility and Authority, Ryan Michler argues that being born male does not automatically make someone a man. Manhood, in his account, must be earned through responsibility,...
by Aseem Gupta | Sep 18, 2023 | Mind, Psychology & Human Behavior
Reading Time: 13 MinutesThe human mind is one of our most remarkable assets. It has given us literature, architecture, cinema, scientific discoveries, and countless inventions that have transformed civilization. Our ability to think allows us to solve problems,...
