In the next paragraphs, I am going to summarise the advice from Seneca about dealing with failure. He devoted a couple of decades to compiling his advice, not only from his personal experience, but also from other notable persons in the early Roman Empire. Seneca called for keeping adequate margins of error. I mean having…

Seneca (4 BC-65 AD) wrote hundreds of pages about reducing stress during difficult times. Modern readers can benefit from Seneca’s wise recommendations for dealing with pain and suffering. I am going to summarise those recommendations to the extent that we can still apply them today. [1] Emotional overreaction should be avoided because it’s a sure…

Seneca (4 BC-65 AD) made some worthy recommendations about how deal with pain and suffering. Unfortunately, he also dispensed plenty of irrational, harmful advice. It’s important to tell the difference between one and the other. For instance, Seneca was wrong in regarding suffering and pain as predominantly mental constructs. In his 13th Letter to Lucilius,…