Brigid Delaney’s Life Changing Year of Living Like a Stoic
The Daily Stoic2 Okt 2024

Brigid Delaney’s Life Changing Year of Living Like a Stoic

Brigid Delaney was at a unique point in her life and found herself looking for answers around life’s deepest questions: What does it mean to be a good person? How do we stop letting the things out of our control rule our emotions? Can our anger be tamed? After learning more about Stoicism, Brigid decided to let the ancient wisdom from Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, and Seneca guide her decisions for a year.


While in Australia on tour, Ryan had the chance to meet Brigid in person and talk with her about why Stoicism resonated with her, how to successfully apply Stoicism to modern problems, and the common misconceptions around Stoicism being exclusively for men. To learn more about Brigid’s experience, check out her book Reasons Not to Worry: How to Be Stoic in Chaotic Times.


Brigid Delaney is the author of Reasons Not to Worry: How to Be Stoic in Chaotic Times and Wellmania: Extreme Misadventures in the Search for Wellness. Be sure to check out the Netflix series Brigid co-create, inspired by her book Wellmania!



📚 Books Mentioned:

Reasons Not to Worry: How to Be Stoic in Chaotic Times by Brigid Delaney

The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday

On Anger: De Ira by Seneca

The Therapy of Desire by Martha Nussbaum

Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero by James Romm


Follow Brigid Delaney on X @ BrigidWD


🎟 Ryan Holiday is going on tour! Grab tickets for London, Rotterdam, Dublin, Vancouver, and Toronto at ryanholiday.net/tour


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