Donald J. Robertson
@donjrobertson.bsky.social
Author of "How to Think Like a Roman Emperor", and "How to Think Like Socrates". President of the Plato's Academy Centre in Athens.
Q: Is it a self-help book?
A: Yes and no.
A: Yes and no.
July 29, 2025 at 4:39 AM
Q: Is it a self-help book?
A: Yes and no.
A: Yes and no.
Last chance to register for tomorrow’s Democracy and Tyranny virtual conference from the Plato’s Academy Centre, which I’ll be hosting. Everyone is welcome to join us, free of charge - recordings available if you register today. Thanks for your support!
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July 25, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Last chance to register for tomorrow’s Democracy and Tyranny virtual conference from the Plato’s Academy Centre, which I’ll be hosting. Everyone is welcome to join us, free of charge - recordings available if you register today. Thanks for your support!
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We had a dozen people at our first walk last night. DM me your email to join the announcement list.
June 20, 2025 at 10:48 AM
We had a dozen people at our first walk last night. DM me your email to join the announcement list.
How to Think Like Socrates is back in the charts! ;)
May 28, 2025 at 10:26 PM
How to Think Like Socrates is back in the charts! ;)
What do #Stoicism and #Buddhism have in common? Check out my conversation with Sam Harris on the Waking Up app.
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May 14, 2025 at 7:00 PM
What do #Stoicism and #Buddhism have in common? Check out my conversation with Sam Harris on the Waking Up app.
app.wakingup.com/course/CO735...
app.wakingup.com/course/CO735...
🔥 Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor. Get 50% off the print edition + free shipping using discount code MAY25, from the publisher's website.
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May 1, 2025 at 1:10 PM
🔥 Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor. Get 50% off the print edition + free shipping using discount code MAY25, from the publisher's website.
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300...
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"In this flowing stream then, on which there is no abiding, what is there of the things which hurry by on which a man would set a high price? It would be just as if a man should fall in love with one of the sparrows which fly by, but it has already passed out of sight." –Meditations, 6.15
April 25, 2025 at 1:01 AM
"In this flowing stream then, on which there is no abiding, what is there of the things which hurry by on which a man would set a high price? It would be just as if a man should fall in love with one of the sparrows which fly by, but it has already passed out of sight." –Meditations, 6.15
I think this is the best audiobook I've recorded. Not all that many people have purchased it, although it's been getting great reviews. So I'm glad to see "How to Think like Socrates" is so popular in the Toronto Public Library system that forty people are on the waiting list to listen to it.
April 18, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I think this is the best audiobook I've recorded. Not all that many people have purchased it, although it's been getting great reviews. So I'm glad to see "How to Think like Socrates" is so popular in the Toronto Public Library system that forty people are on the waiting list to listen to it.
Check out my latest podcast on Substack, for an in-depth discussion of the relationship between Stoic and Buddhist meditation exercises, and their approaches to anger with former Buddhist monk, Matthew Gindin.
donaldrobertson.substack.com/p/meditation...
donaldrobertson.substack.com/p/meditation...
April 17, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Check out my latest podcast on Substack, for an in-depth discussion of the relationship between Stoic and Buddhist meditation exercises, and their approaches to anger with former Buddhist monk, Matthew Gindin.
donaldrobertson.substack.com/p/meditation...
donaldrobertson.substack.com/p/meditation...
We're experimenting with publishing clips from our virtual conferences on social media. This is just me talking about typical beliefs in anger, and how Marcus Aurelius uses Stoicism to dispute them... in TEN different ways.
March 23, 2025 at 1:52 PM
We're experimenting with publishing clips from our virtual conferences on social media. This is just me talking about typical beliefs in anger, and how Marcus Aurelius uses Stoicism to dispute them... in TEN different ways.
Now 199 people have reviewed Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor on Amazon, are you going to be the 200th reviewer? #Stoicism #MarcusAurelius @yalepress.bsky.social
March 21, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Now 199 people have reviewed Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor on Amazon, are you going to be the 200th reviewer? #Stoicism #MarcusAurelius @yalepress.bsky.social
⭐ Will you be the 600th reviewer of my biography "Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor" on Goodreads? (Thanks everyone.)
March 7, 2025 at 4:21 PM
⭐ Will you be the 600th reviewer of my biography "Marcus Aurelius: The Stoic Emperor" on Goodreads? (Thanks everyone.)
My biography of Marcus Aurelius is nearly half price at the moment on Amazon if you apply the coupon on their website.
March 6, 2025 at 2:33 AM
My biography of Marcus Aurelius is nearly half price at the moment on Amazon if you apply the coupon on their website.
This is Hitler in 1938 signing the Munich Agreement. (Mussolini is there too, although he didn't sign.) The British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, famously returned home waving the signed document and announced they had agreed “peace for our time!”
March 3, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This is Hitler in 1938 signing the Munich Agreement. (Mussolini is there too, although he didn't sign.) The British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, famously returned home waving the signed document and announced they had agreed “peace for our time!”
What's Hector reading? @yalepress.bsky.social
March 1, 2025 at 10:40 PM
What's Hector reading? @yalepress.bsky.social
These are the eyes of Andrew Salter, a hypnotist and pioneer of behavior therapy and assertiveness training in the 1940s.
February 19, 2025 at 2:23 AM
These are the eyes of Andrew Salter, a hypnotist and pioneer of behavior therapy and assertiveness training in the 1940s.
Why do experts advise us to use the word "I" more often in order to replace anger with healthy assertiveness? Check out my latest article on anger.
donaldrobertson.substack.com/p/i-talk-and...
donaldrobertson.substack.com/p/i-talk-and...
February 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Why do experts advise us to use the word "I" more often in order to replace anger with healthy assertiveness? Check out my latest article on anger.
donaldrobertson.substack.com/p/i-talk-and...
donaldrobertson.substack.com/p/i-talk-and...
🎧 Put on your headphones and listen to these brand new sessions, now available for my Mindful #Stoicism audio course on the @wakingup.bsky.social app.
February 12, 2025 at 1:59 AM
🎧 Put on your headphones and listen to these brand new sessions, now available for my Mindful #Stoicism audio course on the @wakingup.bsky.social app.
🔥🔥🔥 Back at number one.
February 4, 2025 at 10:24 PM
🔥🔥🔥 Back at number one.
🔥🔥🔥 My new book, "How to Think Like Socrates", is currently 39% off on Amazon US for a limited time only.
January 25, 2025 at 12:45 PM
🔥🔥🔥 My new book, "How to Think Like Socrates", is currently 39% off on Amazon US for a limited time only.
🙏🙏🙏 Thanks to everyone who has been posting their photos of How to Think Like Socrates.
January 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
🙏🙏🙏 Thanks to everyone who has been posting their photos of How to Think Like Socrates.
What's beyond Stoicism?
January 7, 2025 at 6:40 PM
What's beyond Stoicism?
January 5, 2025 at 7:45 PM