The Handbook

Yeah, exactly. Close wrote that.

This book has a weird title, it's a word you wouldn't recognize, it's a word you don't immediately know how to pronounce. And it translates in a kind of strange context but basically it means a defensive weapon, it means at hand.

I'm talking about epictetus's in Curidian, a handbook, which was seen as a defensive weapon against adversity and difficulty in the blows of fate.

Epictetus born a slave, he enters incredible adversity and difficulty, he's tortured, he walks with a limp his whole life, he serves in the corrupt, decadent court of Nero and then is eventually exiled.

But from all this difficulty in adversity, epictetus cultivates a life of resilience and strength, and fortitude and honor.

This is a new translation by Robin Waterfield, it's got all this stuff in here. If you haven't read epictetus, if you're doing yourself into service, you're not as strong or as well armed as you could be, you must read this book.