How to Be Free, Joe Blow
How to Be Free, Joe Blow
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How to Be Free

Author: Joe Blow

Narrator: Derek Botten

Unabridged: 2 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/31/2020

Categories: Nonfiction, Self-help


Synopsis

How can we free ourselves from mental suffering? How can we unlock what the poet William Blake referred to as “the mind-forged manacles” - those unhelpful, unfounded and inflexible habits of thought which keep us from reaching our true creative potential?This book provides practical advice on how to achieve this.But it also offers an imaginative holistic theoretical framework for an understanding of the nature of the universe, the psychological history of the human race and the meaning of life.What readers have said about How to Be Free :"Your book has made me a happier person already!""Opened my eyes and changed my life.""Here is a person who reached deep inside himself and spilled his soul out onto each page...""I found your book particularly helpful at a low point in my life... You have given me new hope...""This is a book that is full of insight and as a psychology major, I would highly recommend it to all open minds."

Reviews

Goodreads review by Julian

How to be Free is an Ancient Guide to the Stoic life and comprises The Encheiridion and selections from The Discourses. Epictetus was born a slave and lived from 55AD to 135AD. This Roman Stoic philosopher taught that mental freedom is supreme, since it can liberate you anywhere, even in prison. Fre......more

Goodreads review by Olga

Such a compact book of great thoughts, simple, yet not simplistic. The ideas on freedom of a man who was born as a slave, make so much sense even after 2000 years - it gives me goosebumps to think about it. Epictetus’ vision on how to be cool will never go out of fashion :) P.S. The intro could be skip......more

Goodreads review by Massimo

This is part of the ongoing Princeton Press series, "Classical Wisdom for Modern Readers." I intend to go through the entire collection and review it both here and, more extensively, on my Substack newsletter, Figs in Winter. How to Be Free is Anthony Long's translation of the Encheiridion, the manu......more