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Stoicism has been useful for me: https://www.reddit.com/r/Stoicism/wiki/faq https://www.reddit.com/r/Stoicism/wiki/faq

• href 10y ago
  For me it was Zen, which I heard is in some ways quite similar to Stoicism. A good start is Alan Watts' "The Way of Zen": https://www.amazon.com/Way-Zen-Alan-W-Watts/dp/0375705104 https://www.amazon.com/Way-Zen-Alan-W-Watts/dp/0375705104
  • hnjm0101 10y ago
    I dunno, maybe I've completely missed the point in his writing, but I just tried reading "The Wisdom of Insecurity" and it seemed like almost complete nonsense to me. There were definitely a few passages that were very insightful, but the other 90% (at least to me) was incoherent rambling.
    • href 10y ago
      I didn't mean to recommend Alan Watts in general, though I generally like him. I just think Zen can be a bit hard to get into without some introduction and I consider Watts' decent.