Stoicism, the foundations
A week with Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus. The dichotomy of control, voluntary discomfort, the view from above. Read aloud.
Habits, an introduction
Seven foundational moves — make it tiny, anchor to something you already do, never miss twice. Drawn from Duhigg, Fogg, and Clear.
Money, an introduction
The seven ideas that quietly do most of the work — pay yourself first, compound interest, money as life energy. Clason, Robin, Collins.
Sales, an introduction
Selling as service, not pressure. Seven moves you can use the same week — listening, framing, the question that lets the other person decide.
Communication, an introduction
Listen first. Observe before you judge. Name what you feel. Six moves that change most conversations — Carnegie, Rosenberg, Patterson.
Philosophy, an introduction
Three deeper sessions on the questions worth examining — Plato on the examined life, Russell on the limits of certainty, de Botton on consolation.
Psychology, an introduction
Thoughts are not facts. Emotions are information. Six moves toward ordinary adult emotional literacy — Goleman, Burns, Brown.
Habits, the science
Duhigg, Fogg, Clear in sequence — loop, design, identity. The progression that gets you from cue-routine-reward to behaviour change that lasts.
Three schools of negotiation
Voss on tactical empathy. Fisher and Ury on principled bargaining. Diamond on the human side. Three frameworks that disagree, in conversation.
The Stoic triangle
Marcus, then Seneca, then Epictetus. The three canonical Stoics in order of demand — from the emperor's notebook to the slave's lectures.
The will to persist
Duckworth on grit, Dweck on mindset, Newport on deliberate practice. Twenty-one days where the length of the path is itself the lesson.
Practical wisdom
Naval on judgement. Taleb on antifragility. Frankl on meaning. Three aphorists on the inner locus, read slowly enough to land.
The resistance trilogy
Pressfield's discipline, Rubin's openness, Gilbert's play. Same problem — the block on creative work — three temperaments meeting it.
The inner game of dating
Attractiveness as downstream of self-respect, not upstream of it. Manson, Glover, Branden — explicitly outside the pickup tradition.
Money is mostly behavior
Housel on psychology, Robin on life-energy, Stanley and Danko on the unshowy rich. Every day has a calculation you can run on your own numbers.
Meaning under pressure
Frankl, Tolle, and Manson on suffering — measured, contemplative, irreverent — converging on the same argument about interior orientation.
How your mind actually works
Kahneman's two systems, Ariely's choice architecture, Cialdini's seven principles. Layered. With honest notes on the replication crisis.
Attachment and the long game
Levine and Heller on styles, Sue Johnson on repair, Esther Perel on the security-desire tension. Three voices on adult partnership.
Body and mind
Van der Kolk on trauma, Walker on sleep, Gottlieb on the therapeutic relationship. The embodied half of psychology, surfaced honestly.
Where this is going.
Nineteen paths is a beginning, not a catalog. The full roadmap — the topics being mapped, the comparative clusters being drafted, the candidates still on the bench — lives at one stable address.
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