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John Vespasian
John Vespasian
JOHN VESPASIAN is the author of sixteen books, including “When everything fails, try this” (2009), “Rationality is the way to happiness” (2009), “The philosophy of builders” (2010), “The 10 principles of rational living” (2012), “Rational living, rational working” (2013), “Consistency: The key to permanent stress relief” (2014), “On becoming unbreakable” (2015), “Thriving in difficult times” (2016), “Causality: Aristotle’s life and ideas” (2024), “Foresight: Schopenhauer’s life and ideas” (2024), and "Constancy: Michel de Montaigne's life and ideas" (2025).
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#554Friday · 4 min
#553Wednesday · 3 minThe most extreme challenge is letting go
#552September 14 · 4 minTop productivity habits from great philosophers
#551September 11 · 5 minHow Aristotle helped me vastly improve my productivity
#550September 9 · 4 minHow Taoism saves me an hour a day
#549September 7 · 5 minHow Montaigne turned pessimism into optimism
#548September 4 · 4 minHow Schopenhauer reduced stress
#548September 2 · 4 minHow Schopenhauer got rid of anxiety
#547August 31 · 4 minFive areas in which humans are much better than AI
#546July 31 · 6 minAnalysis of Schopenhauer's idea of justice
#545July 31 · 5 minSchopenhauer and the idea of justice
#544July 31 · 7 minSchopenhauer's pessimism: what it is and what is not
#543July 31 · 5 minSchopenhauer and the philosophy of history
#542July 31 · 7 minSchopenhauer and the philosophy of time
#541July 29 · 6 minThe Taoist approach to happiness
#540July 29 · 7 minThe Taoist path to happiness
#539July 29 · 8 minWarnings about the Taoist idea of happiness
#538July 29 · 7 minWhy Taoists do not pursue happiness directly
#537July 29 · 6 minThe opposite of the Taoist idea of happiness
#536July 27 · 7 minCritique of Schopenhauer's ideas on freedom