"There were two vices much blacker and more serious than the rest: lack of persistence and lack of self-control . Endure and Renounce." (Epictetus, Fragments 10) What you are about to read or peruse is a collection from the first year of my blog, How To Be A Stoic (.org). The first post came out on 3 March 2015, and ever since I have used the blog as a sort of public diary tracking my explorations of Stoicism, both the ancient philosophy and its developing modern descendant, in terms of theory but especially of practice, which is what makes Stoicism so distinctive in the philosophical landscape. This booklet collects the best 84 of the essays published from the beginning of the blog through December 2015. Massimo Pigliucci is the K.D.

Irani Professor of Philosophy at the City College of New York. He blogs at Patreon/FigsInWinter.